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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is the most rigorously argued book on death since Jeff McMahan's The Ethics of Killing (2002). Luper's exhaustive analysis is impressively comprehensive, covering the full range of metaphysical and ethical dimensions of death. Like that of other philosophers writing on this topic, Luper's discussion is motivated by three questions associated with Epicurus: Can we identify a subject who is harmed by death? In what sense can a person be harmed by the state of being dead? At what time does the harm occur? For Epicurus, death cannot harm the person who dies because ‘when death is, then we are not’. There is no subject who exists after death. So there is no one with interests the thwarting of which could harm one after death. And there is no time following the event of death when one could be harmed. The book is divided into two general parts consisting of 9 chapters. The first part is primarily a discussion of Epicurus's three questions, while the second part discusses three types of killing: suicide; euthanasia; and abortion. Laying out a theoretical framework within which to address these issues, in Chapters 1 and 2 Luper analyses different accounts of life and the kinds of beings we are. He asserts that something is alive only if it has a substantial capacity to maintain itself. After considering animal essentialism, mind essentialism and person essentialism, he claims that each of these accounts leads to counterintuitive consequences and that we should withhold judgement on this ontological question. In Chapter 3, Luper offers some intriguing alternatives to the standard view that death is the permanent cessation of all brain functions. These include ‘threshold death’, which occurs when the dying process reaches the point of irreversibility, ‘integration death’, which occurs when an organism's physiological systems can no longer function as an integrated whole, and ‘denouement death’, which occurs when the dying process completes itself. He also explores the conceivability of restoring the body's atoms after decomposition, in which case death need not be permanent.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it