Jay Frank Rosenberg (Jay Rosenberg – Wikipedia) was an American philosopher and historian of philosophy. He spent his teaching career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he joined the Department of Philosophy in 1966 and was appointed Taylor Grandy Professor of Philosophy in 1987.
In this book Rosenberg sets out the central metaphysical and moral questions pertaining to death.
After a preliminary chapter explaining the nature of analytic philosophy for the benefit of the book’s intended audience (persons with no previous knowledge of academic philosophy), Rosenberg spends about half the book undermining the popular view that life after death is a logically coherent possibility. The second half discusses various moral questions relating to death.
Among these topics are: The Limits of Theorizing; The Limits of Imagination; Death and Personhood; Values and Rights; Mercy Killing; Prolonging Life; Rational Suicide; and One’s Own Death.
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To follow up in this subject consult ‘Surviving Death‘ by Mark Johnston (Surviving Death (Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series): 1: Amazon.co.uk: Johnston, Mark: 9780691130132: Books), ‘The Myth of an Afterlife‘, edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine (Myth of an Afterlife: The Case Against Life After Death: Amazon.co.uk: Keith Augustine, Michael Martin: 9780810886773: Books), ‘Philosophy and the Belief in a Life After Death‘ by R.W.K. Paterson (Philosophy and the Belief in a Life After Death (Library of Philosophy and Religion) : Paterson, R. W. K.: Amazon.co.uk: Books), and ‘Death and the Afterlife‘ by Samuel Scheffler (Death and the Afterlife (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) : Scheffler, Samuel, Kolodny, Niko: Amazon.co.uk: Books).
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256 pages in Hackett Publishing
First published 1983
Second Edition 1998
ISBN-13 : 978-0872204270
Jay Frank Rosenberg