Mortality Matters: Meaning & Death
A philosopher teaches research into a microphone on the meaning of life and the philosophy of death. Each episode focuses on one article or book chapter from either of these fields of academic philosophy. Emphasis is placed upon making the material accessible to the public and not just for specialists. If you wonder whether we should fear death or what it even means for life to be meaningful, this podcast may be of some interest to you.
Podcasting since 2023 • 12 episodes
Mortality Matters: Meaning & Death
Latest Episodes
#12 – Are Near-Death Experiences Evidence of an Afterlife? Fischer on the significance of near-death experience.
Would it be a letdown if you discovered that your near-death experience of an Afterlife turned out to just be a dream? That what you took to be an Afterlife isn't real and that the experience was something like a hallucination? You might be sur...
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Episode 12
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#11 – Are Near-Death Experiences Evidence of an Afterlife? Fischer against near-death experiences.
Are near-death experiences evidence of an afterlife? What are we such that an afterlife could be possible for beings like us at all? In this episode, I discuss Fischer's criticisms of the evidentiary role near-death experiences have for belief ...
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Episode 11
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#10 – Would heaven be worse than oblivion? Fischer on the afterlife.
In this episode, I focus on the second half of Fischer's response to Williams' pessimistic criticisms of immortality in which he concentrates on supernatural conceptions of the afterlife. I first consider whether the afterlife is even possible ...
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Episode 10
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#9 – Must immortality be boring? Fischer on why immortality wouldn't be so bad.
Would immortality be a curse of eternal boredom, were it even possible? If so, then you might think that we're better off as mortals and that death is a blessing of a kind that prevents us from being depleted of whatever makes life worth living...
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Episode 9
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#8 – Is immortality even worth wanting? Fischer on whether immortals would be recognizable.
You might think that death is part of our nature or that mortality is essential to our nature as human beings. If so, then immortal beings would be radically different than us, so different in fact that they would not be recognizable as beings ...
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Episode 8
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