Description
Clarifies what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, what it is to be alive, and the significance of extinction.
About the Author
Steven Luper is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University, Texas. He is the author of Invulnerability: On Securing Happiness (1996) and The Philosophy of Death (Cambridge, 2009), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death (Cambridge, 2014).
Reviews
'Luper's writing is admirably engaging and unpretentious. He doesn't shrink from tackling the hardest problems about the metaphysics of ourselves and other material things. There's no other book like it.' Eric Olson, University of Sheffield
Book Information
ISBN 9781108833721
Author Steven Luper
Format Hardback
Page Count 230
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 460g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 152mm * 17mm