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Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics James Stacey Taylor

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics By James Stacey Taylor

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics by James Stacey Taylor


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Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics Summary

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics by James Stacey Taylor

Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics offers a highly distinctive and original approach to the metaphysics of death and applies this approach to contemporary debates in bioethics that address end-of-life and post-mortem issues. Taylor defends the controversial Epicurean view that death is not a harm to the person who dies and the neo-Epicurean thesis that persons cannot be affected by events that occur after their deaths, and hence that posthumous harms (and benefits) are impossible. He then extends this argument by asserting that the dead cannot be wronged, finally presenting a defence of revisionary views concerning posthumous organ procurement.

About James Stacey Taylor

James Stacey Taylor is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Religion, and Classics at The College of New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Death Unterrible 1. Posthumous Harm and Interest-based Accounts of Well-being 2. Further Criticisms of the Possibility of Posthumous Harm 3. The Impossibility of Posthumous Harm 4. Can the Dead be Wronged? 5. Why Death is Not a Harm to the One Who Dies 6. Fearless Symmetry 7. Epicureanism, Suicide, and Euthanasia 8 . Epicureanism and Organ Procurement 9. Further Bioethical Applications of Full-blooded Epicureanism Conclusion

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NLS9781138891579
9781138891579
1138891576
Death, Posthumous Harm, and Bioethics by James Stacey Taylor
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2015-05-21
228
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