Death — Shelly Kagan

Episodes

• 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