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Death And Anti-Death, Volume 1:
One Hundred Years After N. F. Fedorov (1829-1903)
Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor
Volume One ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-0-2 (Hardback)
Volume One ISBN-10: 0-9743472-0-5 (Hardback)
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The anthology
discusses a number of interdisciplinary cultural, psychological, metaphysical,
and moral issues and controversies related to death, life extension, and
anti-death. This first volume in the series is in honor of the 19th
century Russian philosopher N. F. Fedorov. (Some of the contributions are about
Fedorov; most are not.) Each of the 17 chapters includes a selected or short
bibliography. The anthology also contains an Introduction and an Index -- as
well as an Abstracts section that serves as an extended table of contents.
A variety of
differing points of view are presented and argued. Most of the 400-plus pages
consist of contributions unique to this volume. Although of interest to the
general reader, the anthology functions well as a textbook for university
courses in culture studies, death-related controversies, ethics, futuristics,
humanities, interdisciplinary studies, life extension issues, metaphysics, and
psychology.
The titles
of the contributions are as follows:
[Introduction:] N. F. Fedorov And
The Common Task: A 21st Century Reexamination by Charles Tandy
[PART I: Cultural And
Psychological Perspectives]
1. The Resurrection Of
Nikolai Fedorov As A Russian Philosopher by James P. Scanlan
2. The Search For A Practical
Immortality: Fedorov And Yoga by George M. Young
3. Death And Anti-Death In
Russian Marxism At The Beginning Of The 20th Century by Daniela Steila
4. Death And Anti-Anti-Death:
A Cultural Exploration by Giorgio Baruchello
5. The Evolution Of Death
Understanding by Anthony S. Dawber and David S. Stodolsky
6. Hypnos And Thanatos: Dreams, Death And The Eternal Return by Scott
David O'Reilly
7. Certain And Uncertain
Matters by Werner J. Wagner
8. Who's Afraid Of Life Extension? by
Harry R. Moody
9. Fear Of Death And The
Quest For Immortality by Robert R. Newport
[PART II: Metaphysical And
Moral Perspectives]
10. Six Philosophical Controversies About
Death by Steven Luper
11. Warranted Regretability
Maneuvers And The Deprivation View Of Death's Badness
by Richard Greene
12. The Deprivation Account Of
Death's Badness And Siverstein's Challenge by John M.
Collins
13. The Harm Of Death by
William Grey
14. More Solutions To The Puzzle Of When Death Harms
Its Victims? by Julian Lamont
15. When Is One Harmed By One's Own
Death? by Jack Li (Author now known as Jack Lee)
16. Letting The Dead Bury
Their Own Dead: A Reply To Palle Yourgrau
by
17. Unburying The Dead:
Posthumous Harms And Posthumous Benefits -- A Solution To The Missing Subject
Problem by Charles Tandy
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Death And Anti-Death, Volume 2:
Two Hundred Years After Kant, Fifty
Years After Turing
Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor
Volume Two ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-2-6 (Hardback)
Volume Two ISBN-10: 0-9743472-2-1 (Hardback)
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Anti-Death Series By
>
Is The Universe Immortal?: Is Cosmic Evolution
Never-Ending? by Charles Tandy
>
Death As Metaphor by
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Fantasies Of Immortality by Werner J. Wagner
> What Will The
Immortals Eat? by George M. Young
> Cultural Death
Understanding by Anthony S. Dawber
> Death And Immortality: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas And Descartes On
The Soul by Carol O’Brien
> Against The Immortality Of The Soul by Matt McCormick
> Why Death Is
(Probably) Bad For You: A Common Sense Approach by R.C.W. Ettinger
> Resurrecting
Kant's Postulate Of Immortality by Scott R.
Stroud
> Immortality and
Finitude: Kant's Moral Argument Reconsidered by Douglas Burnham
> Death, Harm, And The
Deprivation Theory by Jack Li (Author now known as Jack Lee)
> To Be Or Not To Be: The Zombie In The Computer by R.C.W. Ettinger
> The Future Of Human Evolution by Nick Bostrom
> Earthlings Get Off
Your Ass Now!: Becoming Person, Learning Community by
Charles Tandy
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Death And Anti-Death, Volume 3:
Fifty Years After Einstein,
One Hundred Fifty Years After
Kierkegaard
Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor
Volume Three ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-6-4 (Hardback)
Volume Three ISBN-10: 0-9743472-6-4 (Hardback)
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The titles of
the 17 chapters are as follows:
1. Death And Life Support Systems: A Novel Cultural Exploration by
Giorgio Baruchello
2. Recent Developments In The Ethics, Science, And Politics Of Life-Extension by
Nick Bostrom
3. Life, And The Concept Of A Relativistic Field In Kant by Douglas
Burnham
4. Towards
An Ethics Of Ontogeny by Anthony S. Dawber
5. An Easy Death by Mikhail Epstein
6. Fear Of Death And Muddled Thinking – It Is So Much Worse Than You
Think by Robin Hanson
7. The Illusiveness Of Immortality by James J. Hughes
8. A Question Of Endings by
9. What Is Left After
Death? by Jack Lee
10. Life Extension And
Pleasure: Can The Prolongation Of (Self) Consciousness Deliver Greater Pleasure
Or Happiness? by Carol O’Brien
11. Raising The Dead Scientifically: Fedorov's
Project In A Modern Form by R. Michael Perry
12. The Emulation
Argument: A Modification Of Bostrom's
Simulation Argument by Charles
Tandy
13. Managing The Consequences Of Rapid Social Change by Natasha Vita-More
14. Eros And Thanatos – The
Establishment Of Individuality by Werner J. Wagner
15. Universal Superlongevity: Is It Inevitable And Is It Good? by Mark Walker
16. Return To A Pristine Ecosphere Via Molecular Nanotechnology by
Sinclair T. Wang
17. Fedorov's
Legacy: The Cosmist View Of Man's Role In The Universe
by George M. Young
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Death And
Anti-Death, Volume 4:
Twenty Years After De Beauvoir,
Thirty Years After Heidegger
Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor
Volume Four ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-8-8 (Hardback)
Volume Four ISBN-10: 0-9743472-8-0 (Hardback)
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Volume Four, as
indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Simone de Beauvoir
(1908-1986) and Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). The chapters do not necessarily
mention Simone de Beauvoir or Martin Heidegger. The 16 chapters (by
professional philosophers and other professional scholars) are directed to
issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death. Most of the 400-plus
pages consist of scholarship unique to this volume. Includes index.
The titles of
the 16 chapters are as follows:
1. Mechanism,
Galileo’s Animale
And Heidegger’s Gestell: Reflections On The
Lifelessness Of Modern Science by Giorgio Baruchello
2. Simone De Beauvoir by Debra Bergoffen
3. Existentialism by Steven Crowell
4. Time Wounds All Heels by William
Grey
5. The Ethical Importance Of Death by Jenann Ismael
6. The Poetics Of
Death: Intimations And Illusions by Lawrence
7. Death And
Aesthetics by Keith Lehrer
8. Ageing And
Existentialism: Simone De Beauvoir And The Limits Of Freedom by Shannon M. Mussett
9. Life Extension And Meaning by Carol O’Brien
10. Consciousness As
Computation: A Defense Of Strong AI Based On Quantum-State Functionalism by R.
Michael Perry
11.
Reality Shifts: On The Death And Dying Of Dr. Timothy
Leary by Carol Sue Rosin
12.
Extraterrestrial
13.
A Time Travel Schema And Eight Types Of Time Travel by
Charles Tandy
14. Boredom, Experimental Ethics, And Superlongevity by Mark
Walker
15.
Exopolitics: The Death Of
Death by Alfred Lambremont Webre
16. Embryo
Cloning:
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Death
And Anti-Death, Volume 5:
Thirty Years After
Loren Eiseley (1907-1977)
Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor
ISBN 978-1-934297-02-5
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Volume 5, as
indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Loren Eiseley
(1907-1977). The chapters do not necessarily mention him. The chapters
(by professional philosophers and other professional scholars) are directed to
issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death. Most of the
contributions consist of scholarship unique to this volume. As was the case with all previous
volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press, the
anthology includes an Index as well as an Abstracts section that serves as an
extended table of contents. (With Volume 5, you will also find a new section
entitled BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS.) The 17 chapter titles are as follows:
1. Asking The Unaskable
Question – Do People Have The Right NOT To Die? by Marcus Barber
2. Deadly
Economics: Reflections On The Neoclassical Paradigm by
Giorgio Baruchello
3.
A Frozen Future? Cryonics As A Gamble by Gregory Benford
4. Three Big Problems by Nick Bostrom and Rebecca Roache
5. A World Of
Exception: Exploring The Thought Of Loren Eiseley by
Marcus Bussey
6. Knowledge And
Death: Return To The Garden by Harry Hillman Chartrand
7.
Is It Safe For A Biologist To Support Cryonics Publicly? by Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey
8. Taking The
Defeat Of Aging Seriously: The Time Is Now by Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey
9.
Choosing Death In Cases Of Anorexia Nervosa – Should We Ever Let People
Die From Anorexia? by Simona Giordano
10. Technologies Don’t Die by
Kevin Kelly
11. Intimate Moments Among The Dead: Death And Time In The Work Of Loren Eiseley by
12. No Turning Back: Past-Directed
Time Travel Is Scientifically Unlikely, Though Virtual Alternatives May Still
Offer Solace by R. Michael Perry
13. Embodiments Of
14. On Death And
Dying: Summing Up At 70 by Arthur B. Shostak
15. Once Upon A Time by Stanley
16. Teleological Causes And The Possibilities Of Personhood by Charles Tandy
17. Terrestrial Peoples,
Extraterrestrial Persons by Charles Tandy
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Death
And Anti-Death, Volume 6:
Thirty Years After
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978)
Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor
ISBN 978-1-934297-03-2
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Volume 6, as
indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Kurt Gödel (1906-1978). The
chapters do not necessarily mention him. The chapters (by professional
philosophers and other professional scholars) are directed to issues related to
death, life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed. Most of the
contributions consist of scholarship unique to this volume. As was the case with all previous
volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press, the
anthology includes an Index as well as an Abstracts section serving as an
extended table of contents. (Volume 6 also includes a BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
section.) The ten chapters are entitled as follows:
1.
Life And Death Economics: A Dialogue by Giorgio Baruchello and
Valerio
Lintner
(pages 33-52)
2.
Charles Hartshorne by Daniel A. Dombrowski (pages
53-78)
3.
Choosing Death in Cases of Anorexia Nervosa – Should We Ever Let People
Die From Anorexia? PART II by Simona Giordano (pages
79-100)
4. The
Ethics Of Enhancement by Bill Grote and William Grey (pages
101-126)
5.
Cosmology And Theology by John Leslie (pages 127-156)
6. Positive Logicality:
The Development Of Normative Reason by J. R. Lucas
(pages 157-222)
7. The Basic Ideas Of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology by Roger Penrose (pages
223-242)
8. Deconstructing Deathism: Personal Immortality As A Desirable Outcome by R. Michael Perry (pages 243-264)
9. What Mary Knows: Actual Mentality,
Possible Paradigms, Imperative Tasks by Charles Tandy (pages 265-284)
10.
The Future Of Scientific Simulations: From Artificial
Life To Artificial Cosmogenesis by Clément Vidal (pages 285-318)
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Death
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Nine
Hundred Years After St. Anselm (1033-1109)
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the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of St. Anselm (1033-1109). The chapters
do not necessarily mention him (but some chapters do). The chapters (by
professional philosophers and other professional scholars) are directed to issues
related to death, life extension, and anti-death, broadly construed. Most of
the contributions consist of scholarship unique to this volume. As was the case
with all previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University
Press, the anthology includes an Index as well as an Abstracts section that
serves as an extended table of contents. (Volume 7 also has a BRIEF
COMMUNICATIONS section.) Volume 7 includes chapters by some of the world's
leading living thinkers, including: -----Philosopher of in vitro meat - Brian
J. Ford; -----Medievalist philosopher - Jasper Hopkins; -----Today's
"Thomas Edison" - Ray Kurzweil; -----
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Death
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Fifty Years After Albert Camus (1913-1960)
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Paperback edition.
Volume 8, as
indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Albert Camus (1913-1960). The chapters do not necessarily mention him (but some chapters
do). The chapters (by professional philosophers and other professional
scholars) are directed to issues related to death, life extension, and
anti-death, broadly construed. Most of the contributions consist of scholarship
unique to this volume. As was the
case with all previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria
University Press, the anthology includes an Index as well as an Abstracts
section that serves as an extended table of contents. (Volume 8 also includes a
BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS section.)
Volume 8
includes chapters by some of the world’s leading living thinkers and
doers, including: ------Gregory M. Fahy (Founder of
biological vitrification research for large-scale organ banking) ------J. R.
Lucas (Inventor of a version of the Gödelian
Argument that minds are not mere machines) ------John
Searle (Inventor of the
Chinese Room Argument against Strong Artificial Intelligence).
There are 18
chapters, as follows: ------CHAPTER ONE Homer, Heroes And
Humanity: Vico’s New Science On Death And Mortality (by Giorgio Baruchello) pages
33-52; ------CHAPTER TWO Cryonics: A Scientific Challenge To Death (by
Benjamin P. Best) pages 53-78; ------CHAPTER THREE Primary Institutions (by Thomas O. Buford)
pages 79-90; ------CHAPTER FOUR Physical And Biological Aspects Of Renal
Vitrification (by Gregory M.
Fahy et al.) pages 91-120; ------CHAPTER FIVE Latest Advances In Antiaging
Medicine (by Terry Grossman) pages 121-146; ------CHAPTER SIX The Will To
Believe (by William James) pages 147-170; ------CHAPTER SEVEN Politics, Death,
And Camus’s Late Anarchic Style (by John Randolph LeBlanc) pages 171-198;
------CHAPTER EIGHT Can One Be Harmed Posthumously? (by Jack Lee) pages
199-210; ------CHAPTER NINE
The Gödelian Argument: Turn Over The Page (by J.
R. Lucas) pages 211-224; ------CHAPTER TEN The Function Of Assisted Suicide In The
System Of Human Rights (by Ludwig
A. Minelli) pages 225-234; ------CHAPTER ELEVEN Death, Resurrection, And
Immortality: Some Mathematical Preliminaries (by R. Michael Perry) pages
235-292; ------CHAPTER TWELVE The Chinese Room Argument (by John Searle) pages
293-302; ------CHAPTER THIRTEEN
What’s Best For Us (by
Asher Seidel) pages 303-332; ------CHAPTER FOURTEEN Camus, Plague Literature,
And The Apocalyptic Tradition (by David Simpson) pages 333-362; ------CHAPTER
FIFTEEN The Absurd Walls Of Albert Camus (by Charles Taliaferro) pages 363-378;
------CHAPTER SIXTEEN Camusian
Thoughts About The Ultimate Question Of Life (by Charles
Tandy) pages 379-401; ------CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The UP-TO Project: How To Achieve
World Peace, Freedom, And Prosperity (by Charles Tandy) pages 401-418);
------CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Life And Death, And The Identity Problem (by James Yount) pages 419-448. ------The INDEX begins on page 449.
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Death
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One Hundred Years After Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911)
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Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) is edited by Charles
Tandy, Ph.D.: ISBN 978-1-934297-13-1 is the Hardback edition and ISBN
978-1-934297-14-8 is the Paperback edition.
Volume 9, as
indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911).
The chapters do not necessarily mention him (but some chapters do). The
chapters (by professional philosophers and other professional scholars) are
directed to issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death, broadly
construed. Most of the contributions consist of scholarship unique to this
volume. As was the case with all
previous volumes in the Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press,
the anthology includes an Index as well as an Abstracts section that serves as
an extended table of contents. (Volume 9 also includes a BRIEF COMMUNICATIONS
section.)
Volume 9
includes chapters by some of the world’s leading living thinkers and
doers. There are 13 chapters, as follows: ------CHAPTER ONE Contingency, Autonomy And Inanity:
Cornelius Castoriadis On Human Mortality (by
Giorgio Baruchello) pages 27-54; ------CHAPTER TWO Cryonics: Introduction And Technical
Challenges (by Ben Best) pages 55-74; ------CHAPTER THREE Technological Revolutions: Ethics And Policy In The
Dark (by Nick Bostrom) pages 75-108; ------CHAPTER
FOUR Is Personalism Dead At Boston University? (by
Thomas O. Buford) pages 109-136; ------CHAPTER FIVE Practical Lessons In Preparing
For Cryonic Suspension: The Example Of Robert Ettinger,
Patient 106 (by David Ettinger and Connie Ettinger) pages 137-146; ------CHAPTER SIX Bad Metaphysics Does Not Make For
Good Science (by Gary L. Herstein) pages 147-164; ------CHAPTER SEVEN
Open Theism (by J. R. Lucas) pages 165-174; ------CHAPTER EIGHT Fostering Death In A Culture Of
Life: The Ambiguous Legacy Of The Marketing Of Cryonics (by David Pascal) pages
175-198; ------CHAPTER
NINE Agony As Entrancement: Dying Out Of Too Much Life: Emil Cioran And The Metaphysical Experience Of Death (by Horia Patrascu) pages 199-226; ------CHAPTER TEN
Options For Proactive Cryopreservation (by R. Michael Perry) pages 227-236; ------CHAPTER ELEVEN
The Many Worlds Of Dilthey: A Modest Defense Of The Irreducibility Of Meaning
(by Charles Taliaferro) pages 237-248; ------CHAPTER TWELVE John Rawls And The Death Of
Scarcity: A “Force Of Nature” Original Position (by Charles Tandy)
pages 249-280; ------CHAPTER
THIRTEEN The Convergence Of Nanotechnology,
Biotechnology And Information Technology – The Potential Unlimited Renewable Resource Generation
For The
Extension Of Sustainability
(by Sinclair T. Wang) pages 281-328. ------The INDEX
begins on page 329.
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Robert C. W. Ettinger
(Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-3-3 (Hardback)
ISBN-10: 0-9743472-3-X (Hardback)
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edition contains an exact replica copy of the complete first edition of Robert Ettinger's 1964 cultural classic, The Prospect of Immortality. Additional materials include three original (2005) paper contributions: (1) "Ettinger's 1964 Thesis: Indefinitely Extended And Enhanced
Life (Immortality) Is Probably Already Here Via Experimental Long-Term
Suspended Animation" (By Charles Tandy); (2) "The State of Cryonics
-- 2005" (By Jim Yount); and, (3) "A Brief History of
Cryonics" (By R.
Michael Perry). (Note: James Bedford began his journey as
"the first cryonaut" on January 12, 1967; as of 2005, he and many
others remain in cryonic hibernation.)
According to Ettinger, cryonic hibernation (experimental long-term
suspended animation) of humans may provide a "door into summer"
unlike any season previously known. Such patients (individuals and families in
cryonic hibernation) may yet experience the transhuman condition. Ettinger argues for his belief in "the possibility of
limitless life for our generation." We should become aware of the
incorrect, distorted, and oversimplified ideas presented in the popular media
about cryonics. He believes that the cool logic and scientific evidence he
presents should lead us to forget the horror movies and urban legends and
embrace great expectations.
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The Startling Potential of Human Evolution - And How
to Be Part of It
R. C. W. Ettinger
(Charles Tandy, Ph.D., Editor)
ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-4-0 (Hardback)
ISBN-10: 0-9743472-4-8 (Hardback)
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In the 1960s Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation)
movement and authored The Prospect of
Immortality. In the 1970s Ettinger helped
initiate the transhumanist revolution with his Man into Superman. Ettinger sees "discontinuity in
history, with mortality and humanity on
one side -- on the
other immortality and transhumanity."
Cryonic hibernation
(experimental long-term suspended animation) of humans may provide a "door
into summer" unlike any season previously known. Such patients
(individuals and families in cryonic hibernation) may yet experience the
transhuman condition. Ettinger argues for his belief
in "the possibility of limitless life for our generation." We should
become aware of the incorrect, distorted, and oversimplified ideas presented in
the popular media about cryonics and transhumanism. Ettinger
believes that the cool logic and scientific evidence he presents should lead us
to forget the horror movies and urban legends and embrace great expectations.
This 2005
edition contains an exact replica copy of the complete first edition of Ettinger's 1972 cultural classic, Man into Superman. Additional materials (three articles) include
comments by others -- "Developments In
Transhumanism 1972-2005" -- written especially for this 21st
century edition. For example, Dr. Nick Bostrom, a
professional philosopher at the
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Here is the book's Contents:
-----Chapter 1: Fallibility and Reality.
-----Chapter 2: The Development of Normative
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-----Chapter 3: A Critique of Critical Reasoning.
-----Chapter 4: Explanation and Cause.
-----Chapter 5: Projectivism and Probability.
-----Chapter 6: The Tree in the Lonely Quad.
-----Chapter 7: Existence and Reality.
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THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY IN BILINGUAL AMERICAN ENGLISH AND
TRADITIONAL CHINESE 永生的期盼 美式英文-繁體中文雙語版本 by Robert C.W. Ettinger
羅伯 艾丁格 著 with a new (2010) foreword by the author 內有新原作者前言(2010年) -- Sinclair T. Wang, Translator 王振祥，翻譯者 -- is available in hardback (ISBN
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN 1964): In
the 1960s Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic
hibernation) movement and authored The Prospect of Immortality. Ettinger sees "discontinuity in history, with
mortality and humanity on one side -- on the other immortality and
transhumanity." Cryonic hibernation (experimental long-term suspended
animation) of humans may provide a "door into summer" unlike any
season previously known. Ettinger argues for his
belief in "the possibility of limitless life for our generation." 在1960年代艾丁格創始了冰凍人 (冰凍休眠) 運動，並且著作了 永生的期盼一書 。 艾丁格洞見了 "歷史上的不連續， 一邊是會死和凡人 -另一 邊則是不死和超人。" 人類的冰凍休眠 （實驗性的長期活體休眠） 可能可以提供一道"進入盛夏之門"， 而且是一個不像任何前所熟悉之季節。 愛丁格爲他在 "我們世代中無窮盡生命可能性" 的信念進行了辯解。 KEYWORDS: biostasis; cryonics; death;
future medicine; immortality; life extension; personal identity; suspended
animation; technological singularity; transhumanism. HERE IS A TABLE OF
CONTENTS OF THE BILINGUAL (IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH AND/OR YOUR CHINESE?) BOOK OF
552 PAGES: ((CONTENTS IN ENGLISH:)) ---Preface by the Translator ● viii
---FOREWORD 2010 BY ROBERT ETTINGER ● xxii ---Preface by Jean Rostand
● 2 ---Preface by Gerald J. Gruman ● 12
---Chapter I. Frozen Death, Frozen Sleep, and Some Consequences ● 28
---Chapter II. The Effects of Freezing and Cooling ● 52
---Chapter III. Repair and Rejuvenation ● 140
---Chapter IV. Today's Choices ● 184 ---Chapter
V. Freezers and Religion ● 220 ---Chapter VI. Freezers
and the Law ● 264 ---Chapter VII. The Economics
of Immortality ● 302 ---Chapter VIII. The
Problem of Identity ● 364 ---Chapter IX. The Uses of Immortality
● 398 ---Chapter X. Manners, Modes, and Morals of Tomorrow ● 428 ---Chapter XI. The Freezer-Centered Society ● 468
---References ● 497 ((CONTENTS IN CHINESE:)) ---譯者前言 ● ix ---ROBERT ETTINGER 2010年前言 ● xxiii ---Jean Rostand 前言 ● 3 ---Gerald J. Gruman 前言 ● 13 --- 第一章 死亡冰凍，睡眠冰凍，以及其一些後果 ● 29 --- 第二章 冰凍和冷卻的一些效應 ● 53 --- 第三章 修復和回春 ● 141 --- 第四章 當今的選擇 ● 185 --- 第五章 冰凍主義和宗教 ● 221 --- 第六章 冰凍主義和法律 ● 265 --- 第七章 永生的經濟學 ● 303 --- 第八章 身分上的問題 ● 365 --- 第九章 永生的利用 ● 399 --- 第十章 明日的態度，模式和道德 ● 429 --- 第十一章 以冰凍人為中心的社會 ● 469 --- 參考資料 ● 497
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Sustainability
and Quality of Life
(PAPERBACK)
SUSTAINABILITY AND QUALITY OF LIFE is a scholarly anthology edited by
Jack Lee, Ph.D. (ISBN-13: 978-0-9743472-1-9). HERE IS A SUMMARY OF THE
ANTHOLOGY (WRITTEN BY THE EDITOR, DR. JACK LEE): Some scholars suggest we
should live a sustainable life. But what is "sustainability"? We need
to think about sustainability deeply and broadly. In this anthology, I provide
a forum for doing this. Philosophy (e.g., ontology and ethics) is very
important. We also need to bring together natural sciences, education,
sociology, law and other disciplines. Environmental issues command a
multi-disciplinary approach. I am especially proud to include an environmental
philosophy paper written by the brilliant young Taiwanese mountaineer Allen Yu
before he died, of pollution-related leukemia. I hope this anthology can help
us to re-think our engagement with the natural world. HERE IS AN ABSTRACT OF
THE BOOK: Today we face serious environmental problems which force us to
re-examine our way of life. The consensus scholarly response is to urge
humanity to live sustainable lives. This suggestion is appealing as a slogan
but resides in academic consciousness largely unexamined as a concept. This
anthology gathers philosophers and ethicists together with experts and practitioners
from many other disciplines and backgrounds to examine the question: what is
sustainability? KEYWORDS: sustainability, intrinsic value, ecosystem, animal,
human species, Confucianism, environment, obligations to the future,
anthropocentrism, global warming. HERE IS THE BOOK'S TABLE OF CONTENTS:
---Preface (page ix); ---Contributors (page xi); ---1. Metaphysics of
Sustainability: Kant's Categorical Imperative (by Martin Schönfeld)
(page 1); ---2. Sustainability: A Personal Account (by J. Baird Callicott) (page 19); ---3. Intrinsic
Value and Respect for the Natural Environment (by Jack Lee) (page 35); ---4.
The Land Ethic and Gleason's Individualistic Concept of Plant
Association (by Allen Yu) (page 51); ---5. Environmental Ethics and
Bioethics: Anthropocentrism, Ideological Convergence, and Socio-Political
Disposition (by Edmund U. H. Sim) (page 77); ---6. Sustainable Development vs. Sustainable Biosphere (by Holmes Rolston, III) (page 91); ---7. The Possibility of a
Global Environmental Ethics: A Confucian Proposal (by Shui
Chuen Lee) (page 103); ---8. Confucian
Filial Piety and Environmental Sustainability (by A. T. Nuyen)
(page 119); ---9. Toward An Ethical Climate Regime (by Po-Keung Ip) (page 137); ---10. Climate Change and
Obligations to the Future (by William Grey) (page 157); ---11.
Environmental Ethics in an Omniverse Environment: From Terrestrial Chauvinism
to Golden Rule (by Charles Tandy) (page 171); ---12. The
Non-human Natural World, Indigenous Peoples, and Late-modern Capitalism (by 康柏
Mac Kang Bai (Campbell)) (page 217); ---13.
Indigenous People's Hunting Issues and Environmental Ethics: A Contextual
Observation in
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21st
Century Clues: Essays in Ethics, Ontology, and Time Travel
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Century Clues: Essays in Ethics, Ontology, and Time Travel
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21st Century Clues: Essays in Ethics,
Ontology, and Time Travel (by Charles Tandy, Ph.D.): ISBN 978-1-934297-08-7
is the Hardback edition and ISBN 978-1-934297-09-4 is the Paperback edition.
These 14 previously published essays (2001-2008) take us on a journey toward a
transhuman future rarely explored by professional philosophers. The journey's
clues come less from the techno-optimist predictive route of many futurists -
more from the disciplined context of professional philosophizing. Included is a
discussion of eight types of time machines. From basic biostasis to time
viewing to actual time travel, Dr. Tandy expands the categories we use to frame
the future. From universe to multiverse to many-multiverses, Tandy takes us to new worlds. This allows a
richness to our understanding of not only what can be, but what ought to be.
Now it is time to grow up. KEYWORDS: person; cryonics; biostasis; suspended
animation; future; transhuman; entropy; political philosophy; resurrection;
extraterrestrial; immortality. QUOTE from Sohail Inayatullah, Ph.D., Professor, Graduate Institute of
Futures Studies,
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(Charles Tandy, Ph.D.)
(Photo) Charles Tandy, Ph.D.
(2007)
Dr. Charles
Tandy received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from the
Dr.
Tandy’s research and teaching in the general humanities (liberal arts)
typically relates to one or more of the following four areas:
Biomedical Ethics; Futuristic Studies; Global History; Interdisciplinary
Philosophy. Much of Dr. Tandy’s work focuses on “big
picture” issues related to the future of humanity. For example, how may
our worldviews, technologies, and decisions affect future human existence?
(Such profoundly important issues are under-explored and under-funded. Too
often, such studies are flawed by present-centric, ethno-centric, or
discipline-centric thinking. In life, politics, and scholarship, our
foresighted, global, and interdisciplinary perspectives are dangerously
underdeveloped.)
Dr. Tandy is a pioneer
in time travel and suspended animation. He is author of scholarly publications
on the ethics and metaphysics of time travel and suspended animation. He has
argued that sooner or later the perfection of: (1) forward-directed time travel
(for example, biostasis) is “very likely”; and, (2) past-directed
time travel (for example, time viewing) is “likely” (given
reasonable assumptions explicitly stated by him).
Dr. Tandy is
dedicated to encouraging scientific advancements while helping humanity to
proactively prevent doomsday and to wisely foresee and manage catastrophic
risks and possible misuse of increasingly powerful technologies, including
bio-technology, nano-technology, and info-technology, as we move towards a
technological singularity. In some situations it is both desirable and feasible
to ban technology or to promote technology or to relinquish technological
capacity in favor of the public interest, so as to prevent doomsday and wisely
manage risks and opportunities. (For example, Dr. Tandy opposes action to build
space-based weapons. For example, Dr. Tandy favors action to build
self-sufficient self-replicating extraterrestrial green-habitat communities.
For example, Dr. Tandy opposes the
Dr. Charles
Tandy is an Associate Professor of Humanities, and a Senior Faculty Research
Fellow in Bioethics, at