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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 |