Samuel Scheffler
Autor de Consequentialism and Its Critics
Sobre El Autor
Samuel Scheffler is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of The Rejection of Consequentialism, Human Morality, Boundaries and Allegiances, and Equality and Tradition.
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- Nombre canónico
- Scheffler, Samuel
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1951
- Género
- male
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
- Educación
- Princeton University (Ph.D., Philosophy)
Harvard University (A.B.) - Ocupaciones
- Professor of Philosophy, New York University
Professor of Law, New York University - Relaciones
- Scheffler, Israel (father)
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- #64,496
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- 3.6
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- 4
- ISBNs
- 39
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The first two lectures presented here, entitled “The Afterlife (Part I)” and “The Afterlife (Part II)”, were presented as the Berkeley Tanner Lectures in 2012. To these, Professor Scheffler adds a third lecture, entitled “Fear, Death, and Confidence,” which takes the argument further, addressing the related problem raised by the late Bernard Williams of whether an eternal life would also lead to the undermining of value. Scheffler concurs but for different reasons than Williams put forward. He sees the finitude of human life as contributing fundamentally to the value we place on persons, objects and actions. And this coheres with the view presented in the “Afterlife” lectures in that it confirms our dependence on certain forms of life (an aspect of which is their mortality) and on our faith in the continuance of such a form of life long into the future (though not forever, obviously) to sustain structures of value with which we are familiar.
It is a fascinating and original approach and rightly the subject of much debate in philosophical circles. Here, four commentaries on the lectures are provided. Susan Wolf, Harry G. Frankfurt, Seana Valentine Shiffrin, and Niko Kolodny offer substantive critiques of Scheffler’s dramatic speculation. To these, Scheffler provides a response which, if not rebutting all challenges, at least makeing clear that this is a discussion which will go on for some time.
It is a great pleasure to be able to read such clear and thoughtful argument. To witness, through the commentaries and response, the very essence of healthy academic philosophy in action. All of which makes it easy to recommend this volume.… (más)