Midwest Studies in Philosophy, New Directions in Philosophy, Vol. 23
In this annual volume key thinkers explore evolving trends that philosophy as a discipline is facing.
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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.
Metaphysics as Prolegomenon to Ethics1The Meaning of Life17In Defense of a Common Ideal for a Human Life35Can the Dead Really Be Buried?46Later Death/Earlier Birth69Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity84Thick and Thin Selves: Reply to Fischer and Speak94The Termination Thesis98The Evil of Death Revisited116Death and Asymmetries in Normative Appraisals135Appraising Death in Human Life: Two Modes of Valuation151"For Now Have I My Death": The "Duty to Die" versus the Duty to Help the Ill Stay Alive172Taking Life and the Argument from Potentiality186Privatizing Death: Metaphysical Discouragements of Ethical Thinking199Justifications for Killing Noncombatants in War218Capital Punishment and the Sanctity of Life228Aesthetics: The Need for a Theory243Contributors255
