Open Yale: Death (PHIL 176)

1. Course introduction
   
2. The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
   
3. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
   
4. Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
   
5. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences
   
6. Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
   
7. Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
   
8. Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
   
9. Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
   
10. Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory
    
11. Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
    
12. Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
    
13. Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
    
14. What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
    
15. The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
    
16. Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
    
17. The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
    
18. The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
    
19. Immortality, Part II; The value of life, Part I
    
20. The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
    
21. Other bad aspects of death, Part II
    
22. Fear of death
    
23. How to live given the certainty of death
    
24. Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
    
25. Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
    
26. Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion
    

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