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Clarifies what persons, species, organisms, and material objects are, what it is to be alive, and the significance of extinction.
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Steven Luper is Professor of Philosophy at Trinity University, Texas. He is the author of Invulnerability: On Securing Happiness (1996) and The Philosophy of Death (Cambridge, 2009), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death (Cambridge, 2014).
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