Commentary on Lamont's when death harms its victims

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 349-357

  Li, Jack ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

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EID: 61149239525     PISSN: 00048402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048409912349111     Document Type: Note

References (10)

1. See Julian Lamont, 'A Solution to the Puzzle of When Death Harms its Victims', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76, No. 2 (June 1998), pp. 198-212. All page references are to this paper unless otherwise indicated.
2. Fred Feldman, 'Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death,' in John Martin Fischer (ed.), The Metaphysics of Death (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), p. 320.
3. Thomas Nagel, 'Death,' in Fischer, The Metaphysics of Death p. 67.
4. John Martin Fischer, 'Hard-Type Soft Facts', Philosophical Review 95 (1986), pp. 593-4.
5. For more discussion of what appears to be some rather troublesome implications of Feinberg's theory, see W. J. Waluchow, 'Feinberg's Theory of "Preposthumous" Harm,' Dialogue 25 (1986), pp. 727-34.
6. Marilyn Adams believes that a soft fact about a time is not fixed only by what is true at that time but refers as well to facts which obtain at later times. Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz take this point. However, they point out that according to Adams's suggestion, no statement is a hard fact about any time t. John Martin Fischer asserts that there are hard-type soft facts and soft-type facts, and the two kinds of facts can both be fixed after later times. For discussions of hard/soft fact distinction, see Marilyn Adams, 'Is the Existence of God a "Hard" Fact', The Philosophical Review 93 (1967), pp. 492-503;
7. John Martin Fischer, 'Freedom and Foreknowledge', The Philosophical Review 92 No. 1 (1983), pp. 67-79;
8. Joshua Hoffman and Gary Rosenkrantz, 'Hard and Soft Facts', The Philosophical Review 93 (1984), pp. 419-434;
9. and John Martin Fischer, 'Hard-Type Soft Facts', The Philosophical Review 95 (1986), pp. 591-601.
10. Joel Feinberg, 'Harm to Others,' in Fischer, The Metaphysics of Death, p. 185.