Professor Shelly on Death

PHIL 176: Death (Spring, 2007) Yale Open Courses

PHIL 176 - Death with Professor Shelly Kagan Spring, 2007
There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die ... more >>


1. Course introduction [ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ] [ mp3 ]

2. The nature of persons: dualism vs...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

3. Arguments for the existence of the soul...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth [ mp3 ]

5. Arguments for the existence of the soul...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

6. Arguments for the existence of the soul...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwid[ mp3 ]

8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality...[ high bandwidth ][ medium bandwidth][ mp3 ]

9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality...[ high bandwidth ][ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

10. Personal Identity, Part I: Identity across...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory...[ high bandwidth ][ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

17. The badness of death, Part II: The...[ high bandwidth ][ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality...[ high bandwidth ][ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

19. Immortality Part II; The Value of life, Part I[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

20. The Value of life, Part II; Other bad...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

21. Other bad aspects of death, Part II[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

22. Fear of death[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

23. How to live given the certainty of death[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]

26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide...[ high bandwidth ] [ medium bandwidth ][ mp3 ]