HANDOUTS

Is immortality desirable? (html) (pdf)

Hume on the immortality of the soul (html) (pdf)

Empirical arguments for life after death (html) (pdf)

Platonic arguments for immortality (html) (pdf)

van Inwagen on materialism and life after death (html) (pdf)

Baker on constitution and the afterlife (html) (pdf)

Hick on the resurrection (html) (pdf)

van Inwagen's defense of physicalism (html) (pdf)

Swinburne's dualist theory (hmtl) (pdf)

Parfit on the importance of personal identity (html) (pdf)

Parfit on theories of personal identity (html) (pdf)

Persons, brain bisection, and the unity of consciousness (html) (pdf)

Williams on expectations and the self (html) (pdf)

Reid on personal identity (html) (pdf)

Hume on identity over time and persons (html) (pdf)

Locke's psychological theory of personal identity (html) (pdf)

The Chinese room (html) (pdf)

The knowledge argument against functionalism (html) (pdf)

Functionalism and qualia (html) (pdf)

An introduction to functionalism (html) (pdf)

Putnam on identity theory & functionalism (html) (pdf)

Smart's defense of the identity theory (html) (pdf)

Some objections to behaviorism (html) (pdf)

Ryle's behaviorist view of the mind (html) (pdf)

Arguments against dualism (html) (pdf)

Descartes on the separateness of mind and body (html) (pdf)