Death and Anti-Death, Volume 14

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 14: Four Decades After Michael Polanyi, Three Centuries After G. W. Leibniz is edited by Charles Tandy, Ph.D.: ISBN 978-1-934297-25-4 is the Hardback edition and ISBN 978-1-934297-26-1 is the Softback edition. (It is available from most retail bookstores and all Espresso Book Machines.) (It is distributed by Ingram: Ingram is the world's largest book distribution network.)

Volume 14, as indicated by the anthology's subtitle, is in honor of Michael Polanyi and of G. W. Leibniz. The chapters do not necessarily mention them (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.

1.------CHAPTER ONE The Philosophy Of Michael Polanyi And Some Contemporary Attitudes To Life And Death (by R. T. Allen) pages 25-42;

2.------CHAPTER TWO Leibniz, Infinity, And The Nature Of The Divine (by Robert Elliott Allinson) pages 43-56;

3.------CHAPTER THREE Religion's Gestalt: Reflections On Michael Polanyi, Tacit Knowing And Mortality (by Giorgio Baruchello) pages 57-86;

4.------CHAPTER FOUR Kant's Theory Of Morality Necessitates Personal Immortality (by Franco Cortese) pages 87-94;

5.------CHAPTER FIVE Theism, Leibniz, And The Question Of Immortality (by Peter Loptson) pages 95-112;

6.------CHAPTER SIX Can The Best Possible World Contain Death? Leibniz To Parfit: Optimalism, Axiarchism, And Ananthropocentrism (by Tim Mulgan) pages 113-168;

7.------CHAPTER SEVEN G.W. Leibniz's Anti-Death Perspective: Spontaneity Of Death And Absolute Immortality (by Enrico Pasini) pages 169-186;

8.------CHAPTER EIGHT Scientific Divinitism: A Proposed Immortalist-Transhumanist Life Stance (by R. Michael Perry) pages 187-214;

9.------CHAPTER NINE Transhumanist Leibniz: Immortality, God And Panpsychism In The Information Age (by Allan F. Randall) pages 215-242;

10.------CHAPTER TEN The "Death" Of Monads: G. W. Leibniz On Death And Anti-Death (by Markku Roinila) pages 243-266;

11.------CHAPTER ELEVEN Emancipating Forms Of Death With Polanyi And Leibniz (by Erik S. Roraback) pages 267-294;

12.------CHAPTER TWELVE Inspection Of The Cryonics Institute On January 25, 2016 (by Charles Tandy) pages 295-304;

13.------CHAPTER THIRTEEN An Open Letter To Physicians In Death-With-Dignity States (The Case Of A Terminally Ill Cryonicist) (by Charles Tandy) pages 305-312;

14.------CHAPTER FOURTEEN Leibniz's Characteristica Universalis And Calculus Ratiocinator Today (by Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo) pages 313-332;

15.------CHAPTER FIFTEEN Analysis Of An Ontological Proof Proposed By Leibniz (by Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo et al.) pages 333-352.

------The INDEX begins on page 353.