Death and Anti-Death, Volume 11: Ten Years After Donald Davidson (1917-2003) (Death & Anti-Death (Paperback))

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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. Death And Anti-Death, Volume 11: Ten Years After Donald Davidson is edited by Charles Tandy, ISBN 978-1-934297-17-9 is the Hardback edition and ISBN 978-1-934297-18-6 is the Paperback edition. Volume 11, as indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Donald Davidson . The chapters do not necessarily mention him . The chapters 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. There are 12 chapters, as ------CHAPTER ONE Do We Really Want Immortality? pages 25-42; ------CHAPTER TWO The Importance Of Being On How Not To Derive A Contradiction Within A Metaphysical Theory 43-60; ------CHAPTER THREE In Saecula Saeculorum? Bioscience, Biotechnology And The Construct Of A Neurobioethical View 61-80; ------CHAPTER FOUR Making Death Worth Its Prolegomena To Any Future Necronomics 81-92; ------CHAPTER FIVE On What Persists After Death 93-104; ------CHAPTER SIX Extreme Lifespans Via Perpetual-Equalising The ELPIs Hypothesis 105-124; ------CHAPTER SEVEN What Philosophy Ought To Be 125-162; ------CHAPTER EIGHT Resurrecting The Dead Through Future Parallel Recreation As An Alternative To Quantum Archaeology 163-172; ------CHAPTER NINE Supervenient Spirituality And The Meaning Of Life 173-190; ------CHAPTER TEN What Might It Take To Get From Donald Davidson's Mature Philosophical Position To Recognize The Possibility, And Even Plausibility, Of An Afterlife? 191-210; ------CHAPTER ELEVEN Roger Penrose, Rupert Sheldrake, And The Future Of Consciousness 211-228; ------CHAPTER TWELVE Rational Suicide And Global Suicide In The Amor Fati Of Modal Totality 229-268; ------The INDEX begins on page 269.