Publisher's Synopsis
Death And Anti-Death, Volume 19:
One Year After Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020) 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 different/ differing points of view are presented and argued. Death And Anti-Death, Volume 19: One Year After Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020) is edited by Charles Tandy, Ph.D.: ISBN 978-1-934297-35-3 is the Hardback edition and ISBN 978-1-934297-36-0 is the Softback edition. (It is available from most retail bookstores and all Espresso Book Machines.) (It is distributed by Ingram: Ingram is the world's largest book distribution network.) Volume 19 (=348 pages) is in honor of Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929-2020). Please note that most of the chapter contributions do not mention her, but some do. The chapters (by professional philosophers and other scholars and professionals) 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 Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents. Volume 19 includes fourteen chapters, as follows: ------CHAPTER ONE: What Brought This On? (by Glenn C. Altschuler) Pages 27-30. ------CHAPTER TWO: Cruel Death For Cruel Derision: Thoughts On Charlie Hebdo (by Giorgio Baruchello and Ársæll Már Arnarsson) Pages 31-82. ------CHAPTER THREE: You've Had Your Turn - The Case For Euthanizing Everyone At Age 65 (by Marshall Brain) Pages 83-104. ------CHAPTER FOUR: Technological Singularity And The Quest For A New Religion (by Riccardo Campa) Pages 105-124. ------CHAPTER FIVE: My Son The Violinist: A Mencian Response To Thomson's Defense Of Abortion? (by Troy T. Catterson) Pages 125-138. ------CHAPTER SIX: Abortion And Infanticide: A Radical Libertarian Defence (by J. C. Lester) Pages 139-152. ------CHAPTER SEVEN: Murderer At The Switch: Thomson, Kant, And The Trolley Problem (by James Edwin Mahon) Pages 153-188. ------CHAPTER EIGHT: How Absolute Are Moral Absolutes? (by Michael Moore and Jeremy Waldron) Pages 189-222. ------CHAPTER NINE: Cryonics, Universal Immortalism, Science, And Religion: A Case For Unity Not Disunity (by R. Michael Perry) Pages 223-246. ------CHAPTER TEN: For A New Understanding Of Death/Anti-Death (by Lucia Santaella) Pages 247-260. ------CHAPTER ELEVEN: Will Andrew Yang's New "Anti-Party" Political Party Fix America's Gridlock? (by Charles Tandy) Pages 261-270. ------CHAPTER TWELVE: What Do Trollies Teach Us About Responsible Innovation? (by Steven Umbrello) Pages 271-288. ------CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Superlongevity, Overpopulation, And The Repugnant Conclusion (by Mark Walker) Pages 289-308. ------CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Neuroevolution May Give New Life To Evolutionary Algorithms (by Roman V. Yampolskiy) Pages 309-346.
