Lecture 15 - The Nature of Death (cont.); Believing You will Die. The lecture explores the question of the state of being dead. Even though the most logical claim seems to be that when a person stops P-functioning he or she is dead, a more careful consideration must allow for exceptions,
such as when one is asleep or in a coma. Professor Kagan then suggests that on some level nobody believes that he or she is going to die. As a case in point, he takes Tolstoy's famous character Ivan Ilych.
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Lecture 15 - The Nature of Death (cont.); Believing You will Die
Time
Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00]
1. Introduction - Accommodating Sleep in the Definition of Death
[00:03:36]
2. Specification: The Ability to Engage in P-Functioning
[00:13:32]
3. Nobody Believes That They Will Die: An Analysis
[00:27:49]
4. Can Imagining Death Work? Flaws in Freud's Argument
[00:36:11]
5. Nobody Believes in Bodily Death: The Death of Ivan Ilyich