Death — Shelly Kagan
Yale University
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Yale Open Course: Death with Professor Shelly Kagan (PHIL176)
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Course introduction
Episode 1
The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
Episode 2
Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
Episode 3
Introduction to Plato'sPhaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
Episode 4
Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
Episode 5
Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
Episode 6
Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
Episode 7
Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
Episode 8
Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
Episode 9
Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
Episode 10
Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
Episode 11
Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
Episode 12
Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
Episode 13
What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
Episode 14
The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
Episode 15
Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
Episode 16
The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
Episode 17
The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
Episode 18
Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
Episode 19
The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
Episode 20
Other bad aspects of death, Part II
Episode 21
Fear of death
Episode 22
How to live given the certainty of death
Episode 23
Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
Episode 24
Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
Episode 25
Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
Episode 26
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