Death and Anti-death, Volume 1: One Hundred Years After N. F. Fedorov (1829-1903) - Death & Anti-death (Hardcover)

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; v. 1 One hundred years after N. F. Fedorov (1829-1903) -- v. 2. Two hundred years after Kant, fifty years after Turing. Publisher Marketing: Death And Anti-Death, Volume 1: One Hundred Years After N. F. Fedorov (1829-1903) Charles Tandy, Ph. D., Editor ISBN 0-9743472-0-5 Ria University Press (Palo Alto, California USA) 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 (The Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press) 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 consists 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. Professional philosophers and scholars contributing to this volume include the following: Giorgio Baruchello, Ph. D.; Troy T. Catterson, Ph. D.; John M. Collins, Ph. D.; Anthony S. Dawber, M. A.; Richard Greene, Ph. D.; William Grey, Ph. D.; Julian Lamont, Ph. D.; Jack Li, Ph. D.; Steven Luper, Ph. D.; Harry R. Moody, Ph. D.; Robert R. Newport, M. D.; Scott David O'Reilly; James P. Scanlan, Ph. D.; Daniela Steila, Ph. D.; David S. Stodolsky, Ph. D.; Charles Tandy, Ph. D.; Mark Taormina; Werner J. Wagner, Ph. D.; George M. Young, Ph. D. Review Citations: Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 154 (EAN 9780974347226, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Tandy, Charles Tandy received his Ph. D. in Philosophy of Education from the University of Missouri at Columbia before becoming a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Presently, he is Associate Professor of Humanities, and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Philosophic Studies at the Fooyin Institute of Technology, Taiwan.