Details
- Length
- 26 lectures
- Lectures
- 26
- Language
- English
- Level
- College
- Read by
- Shelly Kagan
- Source
- Open Yale Courses
- Rights
- Open Yale Courses — Creative Commons BY-NC-SA; lecture audio provided free by Yale University
Lectures
- Course Introduction
- The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism
- Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part I
- Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part II
- Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part III: Free Will and Near-Death Experiences
- Arguments for the Existence of the Soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
- Plato, Part II: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul
- Plato, Part III: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)
- Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul (cont.)
- Personal Identity, Part I: Identity Across Space and Time and the Soul Theory
- Personal Identity, Part II: The Body Theory and the Personality Theory
- Personal Identity, Part III: Objections to the Personality Theory
- Personal Identity, Part IV: What Matters?
- What Matters (cont.); The Nature of Death, Part I
- The Nature of Death (cont.); Believing You Will Die
- Dying Alone; The Badness of Death, Part I
- The Badness of Death, Part II: The Deprivation Account
- The Badness of Death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
- Immortality Part II; The Value of Life, Part I
- The Value of Life, Part II; Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part I
- Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part II
- Fear of Death
- How to Live Given the Certainty of Death
- Suicide, Part I: The Rationality of Suicide
- Suicide, Part II: Deciding under Uncertainty
- Suicide, Part III: The Morality of Suicide and Course Conclusion