Our stories : essays on life, death, and free will /

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Author / Creator:Fischer, John Martin, 1952- author.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11264601
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ISBN:9780199705306
0199705305
0195374959
9780195374957
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 1, 2016).
Summary:In this collection of essays on the metaphysical issues pertaining to death, the meaning of life, and freedom of the will, John Martin Fischer argues (against the Epicureans) that death can be a bad thing for the individual who dies.

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