Lecture Notes

Week 1

Arguments

Defining 'Life'

Week 2

A.I. Consciousness

Material Identity (The Ship of Theseus)

Personal Identity

Week 3

Defining 'Death'

Week 4

Hedonism & The Experience Machine

Well-Being (What Makes Life Good?)

Better Never To Have Existed?

Week 5

The Badness of Death

The Goodness of Immortality

Week 6

Meaning and God (Tolstoy & Craig)

The Absurdity of Life (Camus & Nagel)

Subjective Meaning in Life (Taylor)

Week 7

Objective Meaning in Life (Wolf)

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