Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as parting, death as sleep, immortality as
"Fingarette's book on the topic is so firmly and deservedly entrenched it is 'essential reading.'"--Roger Squires, Editor, The Philosophical Quarterly"It was Herbert Fingarette, in his book Self-Decep
Fingarette (philosophy, U. of California-Santa Barbara) synthesizes his half century of exploring the theme of responsibility from a variety of perspectives. He delves into how to explain moral respon