New Directions in Philosophy, Volume XXIII

In this annual volume key thinkers explore evolving trends that philosophy as a discipline is facing. Metaphysics as Prolegomenon to Ethics (Joel Kupperman).

The Meaning of Life (John Kekes).

In Defense of a Common Ideal for a Human Life (E. M. Adams).

Can the Dead Really Be Buried? (Palle Yourgrau).

Later Death/Earlier Birth (Christopher Belshaw).

Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity (John Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak).

Thick and Thin Selves: Reply to Fischer and Speak (Frederik Kaufman).

The Termination Thesis (Fred Feldman).

The Evil of Death Revisited (Harry S. Silverstein).

Death and Asymmetries in Normative Appraisals (Ishtiyaque Haji).

Appraising Death in Human Life: Two Modes of Valuation (Stephen E. Rosenbaum).

"For Now Have I My Death’: The "Duty to Die" versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive (Felicia Ackerman).

Taking Life and the Argument from Potentiality (Roy W. Perrett).

Privatizing Death: Metaphysical Discouragement of Ethical Thinking (John Woods).

Justifications for Killing Noncombatants in War (F. M. Kamm).

Capital Punishment and the Sanctity of Life (Philip E. Devine).

Aesthetics: The Need for a Theory (Mary Mothersill).

Contributors

Peter A. French is the Lincoln Chair in Ethics and the Director of the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at Arizona State University. Formerly, he held the Cole Chair In Ethics at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and served as Exxon Distinguished Research Professor in the Center for the Study of Values at the University of Delaware. He is the author of seventeen books and has published dozens of articles in the major philosophical and legal journals and reviews, many of which have been anthologized.

Howard K. Wettstein is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Minnesota-Morris, and has served as visiting professor at the University of Iowa and Stanford University. Wettstein has published articles on the philosophy of language and the philosophy of religion.

The Midwest Studies in Philosophy series has been one of the most respected publications for new works in philosophy for over twenty years. This volume explores the evolving trends that philosophy as a discipline is facing. The new directions explored include articles such as Identity in the Talmud, Existential relativity, Reasons and the Deductive Ideal, Criteria and Truth, Locke and Post-Modern Epistemology, A Priori Philosophy after an A Posteriori Turn, and Things and their Parts. Midwest Studies in Philosophy features some of the key thinkers in the field, and many of these articles are especially well-suited for classroom teaching.