Lecture Notes
Week 1
Arguments
Material Identity (The Ship of Theseus)
Week 2
Personal Identity
Week 3
Defining 'Death'
Descartes on Substance Dualism
Physicalism & Artificial Intelligence
Week 4
Property Dualism
Defining 'Life'
The Non-Identity Problem
Week 5
Better to Never Exist?
Why Life is Good
Why Death is Bad
Week 6
The Meaning of Life (Craig and Nagel)
The Meaning of Life (Taylor and Wolf)
Week 7
Meaning and Immortality
Week 8
Euthanasia
Suicide
Week 9
Abortion
Abortion and Personhood
Week 10
Parent Licensing
Procreation and Genetic Risk
Week 12
Cohen Against Animal Rights
Norcross For Animal Rights
Animal Death
Week 13
Discounting the Future
Week 14
The Trolley Problem
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