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22

Are You Really You?

Lecture no. 22 from the course: The Big Questions of Philosophy

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Taught by Professor David K. Johnson | 32 min

Close your inquiry into the afterlife by looking at new ways of defining personhood. According to perdurantism, a person is the sum total of an individual's life experiences and cannot be isolated to a particular time and place. Then question the very concept of a person-a move that may rule out the possibility of an afterlife....

36 Lectures

1
How Do We Do Philosophy? How Do We Do Philosophy? 0 of 33 min
2
Why Should We Trust Reason? Why Should We Trust Reason? 0 of 31 min
3
How Do We Reason Carefully? How Do We Reason Carefully? 0 of 31 min
4
How Do We Find the Best Explanation? How Do We Find the Best Explanation? 0 of 33 min
5
What Is Truth? What Is Truth? 0 of 30 min
6
Is Knowledge Possible? Is Knowledge Possible? 0 of 31 min
7
What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge? What Is the Best Way to Gain Knowledge? 0 of 32 min
8
Do We Know What Knowledge Is? Do We Know What Knowledge Is? 0 of 32 min
9
When Can We Trust Testimony? When Can We Trust Testimony? 0 of 32 min
10
Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief? Can Mystical Experience Justify Belief? 0 of 32 min
11
Is Faith Ever Rational? Is Faith Ever Rational? 0 of 33 min
12
Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? 0 of 31 min
13
What Is God Like? What Is God Like? 0 of 31 min
14
How Could God Allow Moral Evil? How Could God Allow Moral Evil? 0 of 32 min
15
Why Would God Cause Natural Evil? Why Would God Cause Natural Evil? 0 of 32 min
16
Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible? Are Freedom and Foreknowledge Compatible? 0 of 32 min
17
Do Our Souls Make Us Free? Do Our Souls Make Us Free? 0 of 33 min
18
What Does It Mean to Be Free? What Does It Mean to Be Free? 0 of 32 min
19
What Preserves Personal Identity? What Preserves Personal Identity? 0 of 32 min
20
Are Persons Mere Minds? Are Persons Mere Minds? 0 of 32 min
21
Are Persons Just Bodies? Are Persons Just Bodies? 0 of 33 min
22
Are You Really You? Are You Really You? 0 of 32 min
23
How Does the Brain Produce the Mind? How Does the Brain Produce the Mind? 0 of 33 min
24
What Do Minds Do, If Anything? What Do Minds Do, If Anything? 0 of 32 min
25
Could Machines Think? Could Machines Think? 0 of 33 min
26
Does God Define the Good? Does God Define the Good? 0 of 31 min
27
Does Happiness Define the Good? Does Happiness Define the Good? 0 of 32 min
28
Does Reason Define the Good? Does Reason Define the Good? 0 of 32 min
29
How Ought We to Live? How Ought We to Live? 0 of 33 min
30
Why Bother Being Good? Why Bother Being Good? 0 of 31 min
31
Should Government Exist? Should Government Exist? 0 of 32 min
32
What Justifies a Government? What Justifies a Government? 0 of 30 min
33
How Big Should Government Be? How Big Should Government Be? 0 of 32 min
34
What Are the Limits of Liberty? What Are the Limits of Liberty? 0 of 32 min
35
What Makes a Society Fair or Just? What Makes a Society Fair or Just? 0 of 32 min
36
What Is the Meaning of Life? What Is the Meaning of Life? 0 of 35 min

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