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What's New in Death?
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posted on 2024-06-02, 14:41 authored by Patrick StokesPatrick Stokes, D RutledgeWhat's New in Death?
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Part 1: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/what-s-new-in-death-part-1/101324096 Part 2: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/philosopherszone/what-s-new-in-death-part-2/101352676Research statement
Background This two-part program is a ‘state of the discipline’ conspectus of the Philosophy of Death and Dying, consisting of curated interviews with researchers (both senior figures in the field and emerging voices) at an international conference on this topic hosted by Deakin in August 2022. Philosophy of Death is a highly active field at the intersection of metaphysics, phenomenology, and ethics, but one with a tendency to continually go over the same questions rather than asking new ones. The program was commissioned on the basis of an application to Dr David Routledge, philosopher, host and producer of The Philosopher’s Zone. Contribution Whereas Philosophy of Death tends to revolve around long-established questions and research topics, seemingly without making much progress, this program identified and explained new emerging questions and approaches within the field and synthesised these into a narrative. Thus while the program serves to introduce a lay audience to the most salient contemporary problems in philosophy of death, it also achieves an aim of identifying which research questions stand to become significant for the discipline (an engagement with the topic of grief, a shift from biological to moral definitions of death, and the increasing rejection of ‘immortality curmudgeonism’). Significance By identifying emerging new topics within the subdiscipline, the program also serves a ‘discipline-making’ function of endorsing these topics as worthy of sustained attention by those working in the field. It therefore represents a valuable statement of where the field is going and should be going. A particular achievement of the program is that arguments on these topics are laid out with precision, and potential objections and replies considered, without compromising the broader accessibility and narrative character of the program.Publication classification
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