Death and Anti-death, Volume 12: One Hundred Years After Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)

Publisher Marketing: Death And Anti-Death, Volume 12: One Hundred Years After Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) (Available in HARDBACK and in PAPERBACK) Distributed By Ingram The Death And Anti-Death Series By Ria University Press discusses issues and controversies related to death, life extension, and anti-death. A variety of differing points of view are presented and argued. Death And Anti-Death, Volume 12: One Hundred Years After Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) is edited by Charles Tandy, Ph. D.: ISBN 978-1-934297-19-3 is the Hardback edition and ISBN 978-1-934297-20-9 is the Paperback edition. Volume 12, as indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914). 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. There are 14 chapters, as follows: 1.------CHAPTER ONE The Problem Of Identity Revisited (by Tudor Boloni) pages 25-46; 2.------CHAPTER TWO The Riddle Of The Sphinx Answered: On How C. S. Peirce's Transdisciplinary Semiotic Philosophy Of Knowing Links Science, Spirituality And Knowing (by Soren Brier) pages 47-130; 3.------CHAPTER THREE Heidegger On The Existential Utility Of Death (by F. A. B. Cortese) pages 131-136; 4.------CHAPTER FOUR Rejuvenation And Religion (by F. A. B. Cortese) pages 137-158; 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. Contributor Bio:  Rees, Martin Martin Rees is a leading cosmologist and astrophysicist. He is Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University, a member of the House of Lords, and former president of the Royal Society. He lives in Cambridge, UK. Contributor Bio:  Fuller, Steve Steve Fuller is a Professor of Sociology at Warwick University. Other titles of his include "The New Sociological Imagination "(SAGE, 2006), and popular "The Intellectual ("Icon Books, 2006).