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Matti Eklund Reply to Hernandez and Laskowski
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Kenneth G. Lucey Traditional Epistemological Concerns Defended
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Abigail Pfister Aguilar Commentary on Horn: Cosmopolitan Dreaming
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Deborah K. Heikes Comments on Josué Piñeiro’s “Epistemic Peerhood and Standpoint Theory: What Knowledge from the Margins tells us about Epistemic Peerhood”
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J. Harrison Lee Comments on “Aesthetic Reasons and Aesthetic Shoulds”
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E.M. Dadlez Metaphor and Misconstrual: A Defense of Tirrell’s Toxic Speech Metaphor against Shane Ralston’s Criticism
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Holly Longair Conceptualizing Microagressions: Comments on Heather Stewart
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G. M. Trujillo, Jr. Un/Examined Lives: A Comment on Lamont Rogers’ “What Are Internalist and Externalist Analyses of Utopia?”
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Caitlin Maples Commentary on “Utilitarian Aggregation”
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Justin Bell Epicurean Philosophy, Change, and Curiosity: A Commentary on Alex Gillham’s “Epicurean Tranquility and the Pleasure of Philosophy”
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Paul Carron (Im)Permissibility and Psychological Mechanisms: Comments on Samuel Kahn’s “A Problem for Frankfurt Examples”
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Andrew Burnside Why Nietzsche Was So Wise: Comments on Joseph Swenson
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Emily McGill Commentary on Rich Eva’s “Religious Liberty and the Alleged Afterlife”
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Richard R. Eva Commentary on “Why Moral Rights of Free Expression for Business Corporations Cannot Be Justified”
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Sarah DiMaggio Probabilistic Reasons, Belief, and the Presumption of Objective Purport: Comments on Tanner Hammond
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Lucy Alsip Vollbrecht Commentary on Jack Warman’s “Reflections on Intellectual Grandstanding”
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Sarah H. Woolwine Comments on “The Benefits of Being a Suicidal Curmudgeon: Emil Cioran on Killing Yourself”
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Julie Kuhlken The Arendtian Public Space of Black Lives Matter
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David Antonini Black Lives Matter as an Arendtian New Beginning and Political Principle
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David Emmanuel Rowe Death Does Not Harm the One Who Dies Because There is No One to Harm
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If death is a harm then it is a harm that cannot be experienced. The proponent of death’s harm must therefore provide an answer to Epicurus, when he says that ‘death, is nothing to us, since when we are, death is not present, and when death is present, then we are not’. In this paper I respond to the two main ways philosophers have attempted to answer Epicurus, regarding the subject of death’s harm: either directly or via analogy. The direct way argues that there is a truth-maker (or difference-maker) for death’s harm, namely in virtue of the intrinsic value the subject’s life would have had if they had not died. The analogy argues that there are cases analogous to death, where the subject is harmed although they experience no pain as a result. I argue that both accounts beg the question against the Epicurean: the first by presupposing that one can be harmed while experiencing no displeasure as a result and the second by conflating a de re with a de dicto reading of death’s harm. Thus, I argue, until better arguments are provided, one is best to agree with Epicurus and those who follow him that death is not a harm.