Pictures of sides of beef, hanging from overhead rails in refrigerated warehouses and meat-
processing plants, often leave a feeling of unease. These pictures provoke the notion that …

The philosophy of time is a central area of contemporary metaphysics and it is not difficult to
understand the fascination that many philosophers feel for the subject. Our everyday talk …

Abstract According to the Timing Argument, death is not bad for the individual who dies,
because there is no time at which it could be bad for her. Defenders of the badness of death …

In this paper, I investigate backward-looking accounts of death's badness. I begin by
reviewing deprivationism—the standard, forward-looking account of death's badness. On …

Four-dimensionalists think that we persist over time by having different temporal parts at
each of the times at which we exist. Eternalists think that all times are equally real …

This limited, finite series is based on the substantive outputs from a major, multi-disciplinary
research project funded by the Wellcome Trust, investigating the meanings, treatment, and …

In this paper, I explore the connection between certain metaphysical views of time and
emotional attitudes concerning one's own death and mortality. I argue that one metaphysical …

This thesis is about four ethical problems concerning death. The first two chapters are about
the reasons we have to prolong our own lives. In Chapter 1, I argue that we can defensibly …

If a person's death is bad for him for the reason that he would have otherwise been
intrinsically better off, as the Deprivation Approach says, does it not follow that his prenatal …

Prejudicial beliefs are often associated with ignorance. Indeed, common views of prejudice
hold that it is precisely in their ignorance that those with prejudicial beliefs perpetrate a …