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Lecture Description
Professor Kagan introduces the course and the material that will be covered during the semester. He aims to clarify what the class will focus on in particular and which subjects it will steer away from. The emphasis will be placed on philosophical questions that arise when one contemplates the nature of death. The first half of the course will address metaphysical questions while the second half will focus on value theory.
Course Index
- Course Introduction
- The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism
- Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part I
- Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
- Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
- Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
- Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
- Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
- Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
- Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
- Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
- Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
- Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
- What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
- The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
- Dying Alone; The Badness of Death, Part I
- The Badness of Death, Part II: The Deprivation Account
- The Badness of Death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
- Immortality Part II; The Value of Life, Part I
- The Value of Life, Part II; Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part I
- Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part II
- Fear of Death
- Suicide, Part I: The Rationality of Suicide
- Suicide, Part II: Deciding Under Uncertainty
- Suicide, Part III: The Morality of Suicide and Course Conclusion
Course Description
There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Woul... (read more)
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