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The enigma of death

Fred Feldman

Philosophia 21 (3-4):163-181 (1992)

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Four-dimensionalism, eternalism, and deprivationist accounts of the evil of death.Andrew Brenner - 2021 - Synthese 199 (5-6):13643-13660.details Four-dimensionalists think that we persist over time by having different temporal parts at each of the times at which we exist. Eternalists think that all times are equally real. Deprivationists think that death is an evil for the one who dies because it deprives them of something. I argue that four-dimensionalist eternalism, conjoined with a standard deprivationist account of the evil of death, has surprising implications for what we should think about the evil of death. In particular, given these assumptions, (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Defining 'dead' in terms of 'lives' and 'dies'.Cody Gilmore - 2007 - Philosophia 35 (2):219-231.details What is it for a thing to be dead? Fred Feldman holds, correctly in my view, that a definition of ‘dead’ should leave open both (1) the possibility of things that go directly from being dead to being alive, and (2) the possibility of things that go directly from being alive to being neither alive nor dead, but merely in suspended animation. But if this is right, then surely such a definition should also leave open the possibility of things that (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations
On Gilmore’s Definition of ‘Dead’.Seahwa Kim - 2011 - Philosophia 39 (1):105-110.details Gilmore proposes a new definition of ‘dead’ in response to Fred Feldman’s earlier definition in terms of ‘lives’ and ‘dies.’ In this paper, I critically examine Gilmore’s new definition. First, I explain what his definition is and how it is an improvement upon Feldman’s definition. Second, I raise an objection to it by noting that it fails to rule out the possibility of a thing that dies without becoming dead. Download Export citation Bookmark
(1 other version)Morir para vivir. La muerte celular como proceso regulador.María Belén Campero, Cristián Favre & Cristian Saborido - forthcoming - Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science.details Usually, the organization of living systems is explained by appealing to an intrinsic purpose that is based on the biological survival. However, paradigmatically, it is inevitable to observe that the final destiny of all living organisms is death. In this work, we defend that, from an organizational approach, there is a form of death—Regulatory Cell Death—that, far from being a mere "absence of life", is a process of biological regulation and a feature of self-maintenance in multicellular organisms. Download Export citation Bookmark

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