2. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism

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Course: Death (Yale, Shelly Kagan) (Humanities & Social Science). Covers: philosophy death soul personal identity.

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  1. 1. Course introduction · 46 min
  2. 2. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism · 42 min
  3. 3. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I · 46 min
  4. 4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II · 49 min
  5. 5. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences · 48 min
  6. 6. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I · 36 min
  7. 7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul · 47 min
  8. 8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.) · 50 min
  9. 9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.) · 50 min
  10. 10. Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory · 50 min
  11. 11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory · 51 min
  12. 12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory · 52 min
  13. 13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters? · 49 min
  14. 14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I · 47 min
  15. 15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die · 44 min
  16. 16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I · 50 min
  17. 17. The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account · 52 min
  18. 18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I · 51 min
  19. 19. Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I · 49 min
  20. 20. The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I · 51 min
  21. 21. Other bad aspects of death, Part II · 50 min
  22. 22. Fear of death · 48 min
  23. 23. How to live given the certainty of death · 47 min
  24. 24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide · 45 min
  25. 25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty · 50 min
  26. 26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion · 48 min