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David Boonin is a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Professor Boonin’s interests lie in the areas of applied ethics, ethical theory, and the history of ethics.
Website: https://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/people/faculty/david-boonin
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Wrong-Ethics-Posthumous-Harm/dp/0198842104
Summary:
In this interview, we discuss Boonin's claim that the dead can be harmed. He takes a desire-satisfactionist stance on the nature of well-being, which essentially means that our well-being consists of getting our desires fulfilled. Since we can have desires toward things after we die, it follows that those desires can be frustrated after we die. This means that when said desires are frustrated, our well-being states when we are alive are negatively affected.
