The evil of death and the Lucretian symmetry: a reply to Feldman
Philosophical Studies 163 (3):783-789 (2013)
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John Fischer
University of California, Riverside
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In previous work we have defended the deprivation account of death’s badness against worries stemming from the Lucretian point that prenatal and posthumous nonexistence are deprivations of the same sort. In a recent article in this journal, Fred Feldman has offered an insightful critique of our Parfitian strategy for defending the deprivation account of death’s badness. Here we adjust, clarify, and defend our strategy for reply to Lucretian worries on behalf of the deprivation account
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| Keywords | Death Badness Lucretius Mirror-image argument Prenatal nonexistence Posthumous nonexistence Fred Feldman Thomas Nagel Deprivation |
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11098-011-9845-8 |
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Our Stories: Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will.John Martin Fischer - 2009 - Oxford University Press.
Brueckner and Fischer on the Evil of Death.Fred Feldman - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 162 (2):309-317.
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