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Death with Shelly Kagan
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- 1 1. Course introduction
- 2 2. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
- 3 3. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
- 4 4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
- 5 5. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
- 6 6. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
- 7 7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
- 8 8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
- 9 9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
- 10 10. Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
- 11 11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
- 12 12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
- 13 13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
- 14 14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
- 15 15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
- 16 16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
- 17 17. The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
- 18 18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
- 19 19. Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
- 20 20. The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
- 21 21. Other bad aspects of death, Part II
- 22 22. Fear of death
- 23 23. How to live given the certainty of death
- 24 24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
- 25 25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
- 26 26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion