Brain Death: Philosophical Concepts and Problemsdoi:10.1136/JME.28.2.130B JennettBMJ GroupJournal of Medical Ethics
In this engaging and comprehensive book, the philosopher Brooke Noel Moore provides a unique synthesis of the philosophical and parapsychological aspects of belief in life after death. He explains the various theories of personal survival after physical death, discusses the mind-brain relationshi...
To look from a morbid perspective towards healthier concepts and values, and again conversely to look down from the abundance and certainty of rich life into the secret labour of the instincts of décadence—that is what I have practised most, it has been my own particular field of experience,...
After exploring several of the most plausible accounts of the nature of life and demonstrating their failure, he goes on to propose his own conceptual scheme for death and related concepts. In the second part, Feldman turns to ethical and value-theoretical questions about death. Addressing the ...
How do religious and spiritual beliefs accommodate the concepts of free will and determinism? How does the concept of karma fit into the debate on free will and determinism? In a deterministic universe, what is the purpose of life and individual effort?
It is precisely on the basis of the immanent multiplicity of micro-events common to human beings that I propose to draw a comparison between concepts and bodily gestures, and more precisely between art practices and philosophy. If we understand performance as a particular way of living, of ...
Some of the questions addressed include i) what is the nature of psychiatric illness? Can it be clearly defined and if so how? ii) What is the impact of facts versus values in psychiatric classification? iii) How have concepts of psychiatric diagnosis changed over time? iv) How can we ...
We can think of concepts of non-existent objects. These have meanings but don’t refer to anything in the mind-independent world. We have concepts of impossible objects such as a round square, perpetual motion machine, We have concepts which pick out nobody, but which are meaningful: e.g...
Elementary concepts of topology by P. S. Aleksandrov The physical basis of the direction of time by H. D. Zeh The Paradox of Self-Consciousness by José Luis Bermúdez Topoi: The Categorial Analysis of Logic by Robert Goldblatt Conduct of life by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Metaphysics of Descart...
A No-Brainer: Criticisms of Brain-Based Standards of Death Review of BEYOND BRAIN DEATH: THE CASE AGAINST BRAIN BASED CRITERIA for HUMAN DEATH, Edited by Michael Potts, Paul A. Byrne, and Richard G. Nilges; BRAIN DEATH: PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS and PROBLEMS, ...