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About Shelly Kagan
Shelly Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and the former Henry R. Luce Professor of Social Thought and Ethics. Originally a native of Skokie, Illinois, he received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University under the supervision of Thomas Nagel in 1982. He taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Illinois at Chicago before arriving at Yale. Kagan is of Jewish descent.
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01 - Course introduction
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02 - The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
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03 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
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04 - Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
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05 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
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06 - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
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07 - Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
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01. Course introduction
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02. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
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08 - Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
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10 - Personal Identity, Part I: Identity Across Space and Time and the Soul Theory
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12 - Personal Identity, Part III: Objections to the Personality Theory
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11 - Personal Identity, Part II: The Body Theory and the Personality Theory
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24 - Suicide, Part I: The Rationality of Suicide
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13 - Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
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09 - Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
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16 - Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
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14 - What Matters (cont.); The Nature of Death, Part I
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25 - Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
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15 - The Nature of Death (cont.); Believing You Will Die
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17 - The Badness of Death, Part II: The Deprivation Account
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23 - How to Live Given the Certainty of Death
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22 - Fear of Death
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18 - The Badness of Death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
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19 - Immortality Part II; The Value of Life, Part I
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20 - The Value of Life, Part II; Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part I
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26 - Suicide, Part III: The Morality of Suicide and Course Conclusion
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03. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
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21 - Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part II
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04. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
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05. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
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06. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
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07. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
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08. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
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24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
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10. Personal Identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
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09. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
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11. Personal Identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
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23. How to live given the certainty of death
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16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
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12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
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22. Fear of death
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15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
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17. The badness of death, Part II: the deprivation account
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14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
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25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
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18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
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13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
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26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
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19. Immortality, Part II; The value of life, part I
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