Don't Fear the Reaper: An Epicurean Answer to Puzzles about Death and Injustice

I begin by sketching the Epicurean position on death - that it cannot be bad for the one who dies because she no longer exists - which has struck many people as specious. However, alternative views must specify who is wronged by death (the dead person?), what is the harm (suffering?), and when does the harm take place (before death, when you’re not dead yet, or after death, when you’re not around any more?). In the second section I outline the most sophisticated anti-Epicurean view, the deprivation account, according to which someone who dies is harmed to the extent that the death has deprived her of goods she would otherwise have had. In the third section I argue that deprivation accounts that use the philosophical tool of possible worlds have the counterintuitive implication that we are harmed in the actual world because counterfactual versions of us lead fantastic lives in other possible worlds. In the final section I outline a neo-Epicurean position that explains how one can be wronged by being killed without being harmed by death and how it is possible to defend intuitions about injustice without problematic appeal to possible worlds

The Rights Of The Accused In A Global Enforcement Arena

It is a commonplace that crime, no less than other industries, has become a global venture

Marine Resource Bulletin Vol. 27, No. 3 & Vol. 28, No. 1

Contents Introduction The Eastern Shore Barrier Islands, A Geological Profile Pristine Environments A National Long-Term Ecological Research Network Seaside, Bayside Tidal Creeks, Vastly Different Systems Assateague Island VIMS Eastern Shore Lab Nature Conservancy Lands In Concerthttps://scholarworks.wm.edu/vimsmrb/1066/thumbnail.jp

Leibniz on Hope

G. W. Leibniz famously proclaimed that this is the best of all possible worlds. One of the properties of the best world is its increasing perfection. He gave a prominent role in his discussion of emotions to hope which is related to intellectual activity such as curiosity and courage which again is essential for the practice of science and promoting the common good. Leibniz regarded hope as a process where minute perceptions in the mind, that is, unconscious promises or signs of a future pleasure of the mind or joy may accumulate to an expectation which we became aware of, the passion of hope. Related to a moral instinct of striving for joy and avoiding sorrow, hope motivates us to promote perfection which produces joy in us and eventually leads to happiness.Peer reviewe

Interview with Janet Talbot, 2001

At the time of the interview, Janet Talbot was director of Academic Advising.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/cccohx/1082/thumbnail.jp

The Wooster Voice (Wooster, OH), 1984-04-20

This edition includes articles about: the resignation of Associate Dean of Students Rick Swegan; the relocation of the Wooster Dance Company concert to in and around Lowry Center; the announcement of faculty members receiving tenure; reactions against President Copeland\u27s overruling the faculty recommendation that history professor Erika Laquer receive tenure; the involvement of guest composer Alfred Reed in the spring Scot Band concert; summaries of cases settled by the Judicial Board; and a performance of Bertrolt Becht\u27s play The Good Woman of Sezuan by the German Theatre Praktikum Class.https://openworks.wooster.edu/voice1981-1990/1084/thumbnail.jp