Mortal Objects

Identity and Persistence through Life and Death

Steven Luper (Trinity University, Texas)

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Cambridge University Press
04 April 2024

Humanities; Philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Ethics & moral philosophy

How might we change ourselves without ending our existence? What could we become, if we had access to an advanced form of bioengineering that allowed us dramatically to alter our genome? Could we remain in existence after ceasing to be alive? What is it to be human? Might we still exist after changing ourselves into something that is not human? What is the significance of human extinction? Steven Luper addresses these questions and more in this thought-provoking study. He defends an animalist account, which says that we are organisms, but claims that we are also material objects. His book goes to the heart of the most complex questions about what we are and what we might become. Using case studies from the life sciences as well as thought experiments, Luper develops a new way of thinking about the nature of life and death, and whether and how human extinction matters.

By: Steven Luper (Trinity University Texas)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 314g
ISBN: 9781108986724
ISBN 10: 1108986722
Pages: 211
Publication Date: 04 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction; 2. Material Objects; 3. Conformism; 4. Organisms; 5. Incregratism; 6. Selves; 7. The Cogito; 8. Living and Dying; 9. Welfare and Nonexistence; 10. What We Can Become; 11. (Re)making Ourselves; 12. The Meaning of Life and Death.

Steven Luper is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University, Texas. He is the author of Invulnerability: On Securing Happiness (1996) and The Philosophy of Death (Cambridge, 2009), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death (Cambridge, 2014).

Reviews for Mortal Objects: Identity and Persistence through Life and Death

'Luper's writing is admirably engaging and unpretentious. He doesn't shrink from tackling the hardest problems about the metaphysics of ourselves and other material things. There's no other book like it.' Eric Olson, University of Sheffield