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Death And Anti-Death, Volume 2 - Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing (Hardcover)
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Death And Anti-Death, Volume 2 - Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years After Turing (Hardcover)
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ABOUT THE DEATH AND ANTI-DEATH SERIES: The Death And Anti-Death
Series By Ria University Press discusses issues and controversies
related to death, life extension, and anti-death. A variety of
differing points of view are presented and argued. The following
volumes in the series have been published:
_________________________________________________ Death And
Anti-Death, Volume 1: One Hundred Years After N. F. Fedorov
(1829-1903) (Edited By Charles Tandy, Ph.D.) -- ISBN 0-9743472-0-5
is available from most bookstores -- The anthology discusses a
number of interdisciplinary cultural, psychological, metaphysical,
and moral issues and controversies related to death, life
extension, and anti-death. This first volume in the series is in
honor of the 19th century Russian philosopher N. F. Fedorov. (Some
of the contributions are about Fedorov; most are not.) Each of the
17 chapters includes a selected or short bibliography. The
anthology also contains an Introduction and an Index -- as well as
an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents.
A variety of differing points of view are presented and argued.
Most of the 400-plus pages consists of contributions unique to this
volume. Although of interest to the general reader, the anthology
functions well as a textbook for university courses in culture
studies, death-related controversies, ethics, futuristics,
humanities, interdisciplinary studies, life extension issues,
metaphysics, and psychology.
_________________________________________________ Death And
Anti-Death, Volume 2: Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty Years
After Turing (Edited By Charles Tandy, Ph.D.) -- ISBN 0-9743472-2-1
is available from most bookstores -- Thefollowing contributions are
original to this volume of the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria
University Press: > Is The Universe Immortal?: Is Cosmic
Evolution Never-Ending? (By Charles Tandy) > Death As Metaphor
(By Lawrence Kimmel) > Fantasies Of Immortality (By Werner J.
Wagner) > What Will The Immortals Eat? (By George M. Young) >
Cultural Death Understanding (By Anthony S. Dawber) > Death And
Immortality: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas And Descartes On The Soul
(By Carol O'Brien) > Against The Immortality Of The Soul (By
Matt McCormick) > Why Death Is (Probably) Bad For You: A Common
Sense Approach (By R.C.W. Ettinger) > Resurrecting Kant's
Postulate Of Immortality (By Scott R. Stroud) > Immortality and
Finitude: Kant's Moral Argument Reconsidered (By Douglas Burnham)
> Death, Harm, And The Deprivation Theory (By Jack Li) > To
Be Or Not To Be: The Zombie In The Computer (By R.C.W. Ettinger)
> The Future Of Human Evolution (By Nick Bostrom) >
Earthlings Get Off Your Ass Now!: Becoming Person, Learning
Community (By Charles Tandy) ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Charles Tandy
received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from the University
of Missouri at Columbia (USA) before becoming a Visiting Scholar in
the Philosophy Department at Stanford University (USA). Presently
Dr. Tandy is Associate Professor of Humanities, and Director of the
Center for Interdisciplinary Philosophic Studies, at Fooyin
University (Taiwan). Dr. Tandy is author or editor of numerous
publications, including The Philosophy Of Robert Ettinger (2002);
and, Death And Anti-Death, Volume 1 (2003). For more information,
see .
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