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When it became possible to extend the dying process, it became necessary to decide when to stop doing so because of the enormous personal and social costs. But perspectives on "assisted suicide" vary greatly. Physicians see it as a medical issue, jurists as a legal issue, philosophers as a moral issue and the media as a political issue. These original essays show how these perspectives shape the ongoing debate.

Explains some of the ways in which technological advances are altering, for better or worse, large-scale human behavior, thought processes, and critical thinking skills. Recent technological advances-from dating apps to artificial insemination, from "smart" phones to portable computers that can instantly search the World Wide Web for information, and from robots performing surgery to cars driving themselves-once remarkable, have become an unr...

Professor Charlie Douglas suddenly finds murder intruding on his post-modernism classes and writing. Has the philosophy department's bickering come to killing? Charlie can't resist doing a little amateur sleuthing, but questioning department members and students, and looking into the life of the victim, results in too many motives. Charlie can't make much sense of what happened and is especially puzzled by a list he finds. Then there is anothe...

This book presents absorbing and critical expert perspectives on the post-truth phenomenon that has infiltrated the U.S. political system, media, and populace.Deception in politics is nothing new, but the quantity of unsubstantiated statements in America today is unprecedented. False notions, fake news, "alternative facts, " and opinions are being pitched from sources including the White House, Congress, and the American population via Twitter...

An important collection of essays examining and promoting Foucault's influence on present-day philosophy, in both the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions.

Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one's life in order to escape devastating terminal illness.

Comparing John Searle and Michel Foucaults radically opposed views on truth, this book demonstrates the need for invigorating cross-fertilization between the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions. By pressing beyond familiar clichés about analytic philosophy and postmodernism, a surprising convergence of Searle and Foucaults thought on truth emerge. Prado rebuts the analytic impression of Michel Foucault as a radical relativist and...

Comparing John Searle and Michel Foucaults radically opposed views on truth, this book demonstrates the need for invigorating cross-fertilization between the analytic and Continental philosophical traditions. By pressing beyond familiar clichés about analytic philosophy and postmodernism, a surprising convergence of Searle and Foucaults thought on truth emerge. Prado rebuts the analytic impression of Michel Foucault as a radical relativist and...

?Using a crisp and economical style, Prado (Queen's University, Ontario) argues for a new way of conceptualizing aging and a revised vocabulary in speaking about aging. In the spirit of R. Rorty--bypassing the correspondists and referentialists--Prado suggests not a new theory but an innovative pragmatic approach. He challenges as prejudicial--and empirically unfounded--the assumptions that the adaptive capacity of the aged necessarily decreas...

?Prado addresses two kinds of readers: those familiar with literature and literary criticism, and those acquainted with philosophical issues. Arguing persuasively from the two vantage points, he supports his claim that literature and philosophy should be considered, not two separate disciplines, but simply two sides of an argument. He hopes to achieve the desired unification by breaking down the barriers among the literary, the logical, and th...

The Last Choice establishes that preemptive suicide in advanced age can be rational: that it can make good sense to evade age-related personal diminishment even at the cost of good time left. Criteria are provided to help determine whether soundly reasoned, cogently motivated, and prudently timed self-destruction can be in one's interests late in life. In our time suicide and assisted suicide are being increasingly tolerated as ways to escape ...

The aim of this book is to establish the rationality of electing to commit suicide in order to avoid the degeneration that can occur in advanced age, especially when one is suffering from a terminal disease. As well as discussing the philosophical questions the book offers some practical advice.

Introduction to Foucault" for readers with a background in analytic philosophy. Focuses on genealogy, the area of Foucault's work most relevant to epistemology

While society has widely condemned the effects on preteens and teens' natural social maturation of digitally enabled communication, such as texting and messaging, and of social media apps, such as Facebook, Instagram, and SnapChat, these forms of communication are adversely affecting everyone, including adults. This book examines how social media and modern communication methods are isolating users socially, jeopardizing their intellectual hab...

For more than seven decades there has been a broad gap between how philosophy is conceived and practiced. Two ill-defined but well-recognized traditions have developed—the "analytic" and "Continental" schools of philosophy. The former traces its roots to philosophers like Frege, Russell, Moore, Wittgenstein, and the logical positivists. The latter has been heavily influenced by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and Derrida, among ...

Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one's life in order to escape devastating terminal illness.

Examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs. Understanding the role of these influences on the grieving processes of survivors is a crucial step in allowing them to accept the finality of elective death and to deal with the decision of their loved one.

C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs.