NDLI: How the Dead Live

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Author	Conlly, Niall
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	This paper maintains (following Yougrau 1987; 2000 and Hinchliff 1996) that the dead and other former existents count as examples of non-existent objects. If the dead number among the things there are, a further question arises: what is it to be dead—how should the state of being dead be characterised? It is argued that this state should be characterised negatively: the dead are not persons, philosophers etc. They lack any of the (intrinsic) qualities they had while they lived. The only facts involving the dead are facts about the relations they stand in—including the relations they bear to the qualities they formerly instantiated, and the intentional relations they stand in to us. Given an appropriate conception of qualities the dead can be said to be quality-less objects: bare particulars. The ‘Bare Particular Theory’ of individuals, it is argued, is coherent if and only if it concedes that the bare particulars it allows for don’t exist. The account of the dead and other former existents as bare particulars does justice to the misfortune of death, and points the way to a general theory of nonexistent objects.
Starting Page	83
Ending Page	103
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00483893
Journal	Philosophia
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15749274
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-06-15
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Metaphysics Death Presentism Non-existence Bare particulars Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Language Ethics Epistemology Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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