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References and further reading
Descartes, R. (1641) Meditations on First Philosophy, in N. Kemp Smith (ed. and trans.) Descartes: Philosophical Writings, New York: Random House, 1958.
(Descartes’ presentation of his dualistic conception of persons.)
Donnelly, J. (1994) Language, Metaphysics, and Death, 2nd edn, New York: Fordham University Press.
Edwards, P. (1967) ‘Life, Meaning and Value of’, in P. Edwards (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New York and London: Macmillan Publishing Company & The Free Press.
(Clear exposition of main views on meaning of life. Explains and criticizes Schopenhauer’s arguments for pessimism.)
Edwards, P. (1992) Immortality, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
Epicurus (c.300) ‘Letter to Menoecceus’, trans. C. Bailey in W. J. Oates (ed.) The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers, New York: The Modern Library, 1940, 30–34.
Feldman, F. (1992) Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death, New York: Oxford University Press.
Fischer, J.M. (1993) The Metaphysics of Death, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Kamm, F.M. (1993) Morality, Mortality, Volume 1: Death and Whom to Save From It, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nagel, T. (1973) ‘Death’ in Mortal Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–10.
Plato (c.330) Phaedo, trans. B. Jowett in The Dialogues of Plato, New York: Random House, 1937.
(Introduction by R. Demos. Represents a dialogue about death, the nature of the person, and the role of the philosopher. Socrates is the leading character in the discussion, which takes place in his cell in jail, on the day of his death.)
President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research (1981) Defining Death: Medical, Legal and Ethical Issues in the Determination of Death, Washington, DC: President’s Commission.
Williams, B. (1973) Problems of the Self, New York: Cambridge University Press.
(Contains ‘The Makropoulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality’, and other essays by Williams.)
Feldman, Fred. Bibliography. Death, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-N011-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/death/v-1/bibliography/death-bib.
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