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    Lec 10 - Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory

    "Lec 10 - Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory" Death (PHIL 176) The lecture focuses on the question of the metaphysical key to personal identity. What does it mean for a person that presently exists to be the very same person in the future? The first approach to answering this question is the "soul theory," that is, the key to being the same person is having the same soul. Difficulties with that approach are then discussed, independent of the question whether souls exist or not. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction 01:39 - Chapter 2. What Does It Mean to Survive? The Train Metaphor 14:04 - Chapter 3. The Aging of a Car and Space-Time Worms 30:30 - Chapter 4. Will I Survive My Death? The Dualist's Soul as the Metaphysical Glue 46:28 - Chapter 5. Is the Soul Truly the Key to Personal Identity? Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Spring 2007.

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    Lec 1 - Course introduction

    Lec 2 - The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism

    Lec 3 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I

    Lec 4 - Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II

    Lec 5 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences

    Lec 6 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I

    Lec 7 - Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul

    Lec 8 - Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)

    Lec 9 - Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)

    Lec 11 - Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory

    Lec 12 - Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory

    Lec 13 - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?

    Lec 14 - What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I

    Lec 15 - The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die

    Lec 16 - Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I

    Lec 17 - The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account

    Lec 18 - The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I

    Lec 19 - Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I

    Lec 20 - The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I

    Lec 21 - Other bad aspects of death, Part II

    Lec 22 - Fear of death

    Lec 23 - How to live given the certainty of death

    Lec 24 - Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide

    Lec 25 - Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty

    Lec 26 - Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion