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OverviewIt is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person, even if the act takes place after the person is dead. David Boonin defends this view in Dead Wrong and explains the puzzle of posthumous harm. In doing so, he makes three central claims. First, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person while they are alive even if the act has no effect on that person's conscious experiences. Second, that if this is so, then frustrating a person's desires is one way to wrongfully harm a person. And third, that it is possible for an act to wrongfully harm a person even if the act takes place after the person is dead. Over the course of the book, Boonin introduces the significance of posthumous harm, deals with each of his three main claims in turn, responds to the objections that might be raised against the book's thesis, and examines some of the ethical implications for issues such as posthumous organ and gamete removal, posthumous publication of private documents, damage to graves and corpses, and posthumous punishment and restitution. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David Boonin (Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado Boulder)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.468kg ISBN: 9780198842101ISBN 10: 0198842104 Pages: 222 Publication Date: 17 October 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Unfelt Harm 3: From Unfelt Harm to Unsatisfied Desire 4: From Unsatisfied Desire to Posthumous Harm 5: From Posthumous Harm to Posthumous WrongsReviewsDenying that Dead Wrong is a highly stimulating book would be dead wrong. * Jens Johansson, Uppsala University, Bioethics * This is a fantastic book. It argues convincingly for a deeply significant thesis in ethics and the study of human value. I urge all moral philosophers to take Boonin's work very seriously. * Dale Dorsey, The University of Kansas * David Boonin's Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm is a fantastic contribution to the consistently bourgeoning, and increasingly important, philosophy of death literature. * The Journal of Value Inquiry * This is a fantastic book. It argues convincingly for a deeply significant thesis in ethics and the study of human value. I urge all moral philosophers to take Boonin's work very seriously. * Dale Dorsey, The University of Kansas * Author InformationDavid Boonin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder and Director of the Department's Center for Values and Social Policy. He is also the editor of Public Affairs Quarterly. Boonin received his BA from Yale University in 1986 and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 1992. He taught at Georgetown University (1992-4) and Tulane University (1994-8) before taking up his current position at CU in 1998. He also held a visiting position for a semester as an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2006. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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