Death and Anti-Death, Volume 3: Fifty Years After Einstein, One Hundred Fifty Years After Kierkegaard (Death & Anti-Death

Volume Three in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press is in honor of Albert Einstein and Soren Kierkegaard. The chapters do not necessarily mention Einstein or Kierkegaard. The 17 chapters (by professional philosophers and other professional scholars) are directed to issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death. Most of the 400-plus pages consists of scholarship unique to this volume. Includes Index. —CHAPTER Death And Life Support A Novel Cultural Exploration by Giorgio Baruchello. —CHAPTER Recent Developments In The Ethics, Science, And Politics Of Life-Extension by Nick Bostrom. —CHAPTER Life, And The Concept Of A Relativistic Field In Kant by Douglas Burnham. —CHAPTER Towards An Ethics Of Ontogeny by Anthony S. Dawber. —CHAPTER An Easy Death by Mikhail Epstein. —CHAPTER Fear Of Death And Muddled Thinking — It Is So Much Worse Than You Think by Robin Hanson. —CHAPTER The Illusiveness Of Immortality by James J. Hughes. —CHAPTER A Question Of Endings by Lawrence Kimmel. —CHAPTER What Is Left After Death? by Jack Lee. —CHAPTER Life Extension And Can The Prolongation Of (Self) Consciousness Deliver Greater Pleasure Or Happiness? by Carol O’Brien. —CHAPTER Raising The Dead Fedorov’s Project In A Modern Form by R. Michael Perry. —CHAPTER The Emulation A Modification Of Bostrom’s Simulation Argument by Charles Tandy. —CHAPTER Managing The Consequences Of Rapid Social Change by Natasha Vita-More. —CHAPTER Eros And Thanatos — The Establishment Of Individuality by Werner J. Wagner. —CHAPTER Universal Is It Inevitable And Is It Good? by Mark Walker. —CHAPTER Return To A Pristine Ecosphere Via Molecular Nanotechnology by Sinclair T. Wang. —CHAPTER Fedorov’s The Cosmist View Of Man’s Role In The Universe by George M. Young.