{"product_id":"new-directions-in-philosophy-volume-xxiii-isbn-9780631215936","title":"New Directions in Philosophy, Volume XXIII","description":"In this annual volume key thinkers explore evolving trends that philosophy as a discipline is facing. Metaphysics as Prolegomenon to Ethics (Joel Kupperman). \u003cp\u003eThe Meaning of Life (John Kekes).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Defense of a Common Ideal for a Human Life (E. M. Adams).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCan the Dead Really Be Buried? (Palle Yourgrau).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLater Death\/Earlier Birth (Christopher Belshaw).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeath and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity (John Martin Fischer and Daniel Speak).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThick and Thin Selves: Reply to Fischer and Speak (Frederik Kaufman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Termination Thesis (Fred Feldman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evil of Death Revisited (Harry S. Silverstein).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeath and Asymmetries in Normative Appraisals (Ishtiyaque Haji).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppraising Death in Human Life: Two Modes of Valuation (Stephen E. Rosenbaum).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"For Now Have I My Death’: The \"Duty to Die\" versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive (Felicia Ackerman).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTaking Life and the Argument from Potentiality (Roy W. Perrett).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrivatizing Death: Metaphysical Discouragement of Ethical Thinking (John Woods).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJustifications for Killing Noncombatants in War (F. M. Kamm).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapital Punishment and the Sanctity of Life (Philip E. Devine).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAesthetics: The Need for a Theory (Mary Mothersill).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter A. French\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHoward K. Wettstein\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e The \u003ci\u003eMidwest Studies in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eMidwest Studies in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e features some of the key thinkers in the field, and many of these articles are especially well-suited for classroom teaching.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989686468837,"sku":"NP9780631215936","price":77.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631215936.jpg?v=1761785103","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/new-directions-in-philosophy-volume-xxiii-isbn-9780631215936","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}