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University course on Death (introduction)

submitted by Nicki Hansen

(gwiz665)
1 decade 5 years 6 months 1 week ago

"Professor Kagan introduces the course and the material that will be covered during the semester. He aims to clarify what the class will focus on in particular and which subjects it will steer away from. The emphasis will be placed on philosophical questions that arise when one contemplates the nature of death. The first half of the course will address metaphysical questions while the second half will focus on value theory."

Next lecture: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-nature-of-persons-dualism-vs-physicalism

Playlist of the entire course: http://www.videosift.com/playlists/mauz15/Philosophy-of-Death-Yale-University

Second lecture: http://www.videosift.com/video/The-nature-of-persons-dualism-vs-physicalism

8 Comments

griefer_queafer

Wow. Thanks for the post! This is right up my alley.

gwizz are you thinking on posting more? I know I will because the philosophy channel needs some REAL philosophy and this first video was more about grades, and your typical first day of class chat.

Yeah sure, I'll post the rest of this class and make some links between them.

griefer_queafer

These are EXCELLENT.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'yale courses, university, lecture, death, philosophy' to 'yale courses, university, lecture, death, philosophy, Metaphysics' - edited by mauz15

This is pretty interesting. I was mostly wondering what a class on death would be about.

I completely agree with the professor at 10:28. All evidence seems to point to us being our physical bodies. It seems obvious that our personality is located in information within our brains. It also seems obvious that that information only exists as the physical representation of that information. If our brains are physically altered, we change. There is absolutely no evidence for the soul. Plus, the more I read about physics, it's pretty obvious we're made up of elementary particles following the laws of physics that don't care who we are. Why is the soul such a common belief that this guy needs to work to convince people it doesn't exist?

If you take that notion and think about it logically, the rest of the professors views follow pretty naturally.

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