PHIL 176: Death

Class Sessions

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

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