Death And Anti-Death, Volume 6

出版者:Ria University Press

作者:Tandy, Charles; Penrose, Roger; Lucas, J. R.

页数:348

出版时间:2008-12-30

价格:USD 39.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781934297032

图书标签:Career

Death And Anti-Death, Volume 6: Thirty Years After Kurt Gdel (1906-1978) Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor] ISBN 978-1-934297-03-2] ------Volume 6, as indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Kurt Gdel (1906-1978). The chapters do not necessarily mention him. The chapters (by professional philosophers and other professional scholars) are directed to issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed. Most of the contributions consist of scholarship unique to this volume. As was the case with all previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press, the anthology includes an Index as well as an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents. (Volume 6 also includes a BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS section.) The ten chapters are entitled as follows: ------ 1. Life And Death Economics: A Dialogue by Giorgio Baruchello and Valerio Lintner (pages 33-52) ------ 2. Charles Hartshorne by Daniel A. Dombrowski (pages 53-78) ------ 3. Choosing Death in Cases of Anorexia Nervosa - Should We Ever Let People Die From Anorexia? PART II by Simona Giordano (pages 79-100) ------ 4. The Ethics Of Enhancement by Bill Grote and William Grey (pages 101-126) ------ 5. Cosmology And Theology by John Leslie (pages 127-156) ------ 6. Positive Logicality: The Development Of Normative Reason by J. R. Lucas (pages 157-222) ------ 7. The Basic Ideas Of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology by Roger Penrose (pages 223-242) ------ 8. Deconstructing Deathism: Personal Immortality As A Desirable Outcome by R. Michael Perry (pages 243-264) ------ 9. What Mary Knows: Actual Mentality, Possible Paradigms, Imperative Tasks by Charles Tandy (pages 265-284) ------ 10. The Future Of Scientific Simulations: From Artificial Life To Artificial Cosmogenesis by Clment Vidal (pages 285-318)