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

    "Lec 13 - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?" Death (PHIL 176) The personality theory is revised to state that the key to personal identity is having the same personality provided that there is no branching, that is, provided there is no transfer or duplication of the same personality from one body to another. Similar "no branching" requirements are added to the other theories as well. At the end of class, Professor Kagan suggests a shift from thinking about the survival of the soul in terms of "what does it take to survive?" to "what is it that matters in survival?". 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction -- The Personality Theory and No Branching 05:29 - Chapter 2. Fission Is Not Allowed -- The Body Theorist's No Branching Rule 19:31 - Chapter 3. The Metaphysics of Soul-Splitting 35:57 - Chapter 4. What Matters in Survival? Refocusing the Question on Personal Identity 47:43 - Chapter 5. Conclusion 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 10 - Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory

    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 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