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  • 5 - Death Disavowed

  • Finn Bowring, Cardiff University
  • Book:
    Trouble with Death
    Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    13 September 2025
    Print publication:
    25 April 2025, pp 104-128

  • Summary

    In 1955 the English anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer published a short but influential article on death and mourning in the Anglo-American literary journal Encounter. His argument was that twentieth-century Western societies had replaced sex with death as the most shameful and forbidden of public topics, and that prudery in relation to matters of human mortality and bereavement had given rise, as it had previously done with sex, to a furtive appetite for pornographic phantasies of violence and destruction in mass market novels, horror comics and Hollywood films, as well as a shrill and self-righteous condemnation of such violence that was equally misguided. Following the death of his brother in 1961, from a cancer that the family doctor had recommended should be kept hidden from the patient himself, Gorer returned to the theme of the emotional repression, privatization and de-ritualization of grief, supporting his investigation with a survey of 1,628 adults in Britain combined with 80 follow-up interviews. The findings of his research were published in Death, Grief, and Mourning in Contemporary Britain (1965), a book that is regularly cited as the first major sociological statement of the so-called ‘denial of death’ thesis.1 In this chapter I am going to summarize the main contours of this thesis before reviewing, in the chapter that follows, some of the criticisms that have been made of it.

    The taboo of death and dying

    In all nineteen cases of terminal cancer reported by the bereaved in Gorer's interviews, the dying had, like Gorer's own brother, been kept ignorant of the fatal nature of their illness, ostensibly to shield them from despair, but in Gorer's view also to protect the living from having to deal with the dying person's misery or fear.

Logic and Science

Logic and Science
  • An Exploration of Logical Anti-Exceptionalism
  • Filippo Ferrari, Massimiliano Carrara
  • Published online:
    10 April 2025
    Print publication:
    10 April 2025
    • Element
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  • This Element delves into the relationship between logic and the sciences, a topic brought to prominence by Quine, who regarded logic as methodologically and epistemologically akin to the sciences. For this reason, Quine is seen as the forefather of anti-exceptionalism about logic (AEL), a stance that has become prevalent in the philosophy of logic today. Despite its popularity and the volume of research it inspires, some core issues still lack clarity. For one thing, most works in the debate remain vague on what should count as logic and what should count as a science. Furthermore, the terms of the comparison are rarely specified and discussed in a systematic way. This Element purports to advance the debate on these crucial issues with the hope of fostering our understanding of the fundamentals of AEL. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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