这老师穿着鞋子直接盘腿坐在讲台上,还好他穿的球鞋很白很干净,不太碍眼。他长得有点象撒达姆大叔,还满脸胡须,但他个子很小,所以他要坐在桌子上才能显眼一些,台下据说有150-180名学生,是个大教堂,要我个子那么小我也“坐”桌子上。他常说,we are sitting here to ...,确实彼此都“坐着”,很平等。相比古代的大师,比如柏拉图或佛都是如此随意开讲座谈生死的吧。看着他那样手舞足蹈的乱说一气,我觉得很舒服。这大叔一定是个很怪的人,这从一开课就看出来了。不过不会特别怪,因为这里毕竟是耶鲁,我是说,假如他有精神病啊什么的偏差,心理学院的老师们肯定就早就派上用场了。 他一上来就说,别管我叫什么什么“教授”,我喜欢听你们叫我shelly。
1 课程介绍 Course introduction
2 人的本质: 二元论与物理主义 The nature of persons: dualism vs. physicalism
3 灵魂存在与否的论证 ( 一) Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part I
4 柏拉图对话录《斐多篇》介绍,灵魂存在与否的论证 (二) Introduction to Plato's Phaedo; Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part II
5 灵魂存在与否的论证 (三) :自由意志与濒死体验 Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences*
6 灵魂存在与否的论证 (四) :柏拉图,第一部分 Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part IV; Plato, Part I
7 柏拉图 (二) :灵魂永恒与否的论证 Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul
8 柏拉图 (三) :灵魂永恒与否的论证(续) Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)7
9 柏拉图 (四) :灵魂永恒与否的论证(续) Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)
10 Personal identity, Part I: Identity across space and time and the soul theory1
11 Personal identity, Part II: The body theory and the personality theory
12 Personal identity, Part III: Objections to the personality theory
13 Personal identity, Part IV; What matters?
14 What matters (cont.); The nature of death, Part I
15 The nature of death (cont.); Believing you will die
16 Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I
17 The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account
18 The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I
19 Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I
20 The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I
21 Other bad aspects of death, Part II
22 Fear of death
23 How to live given the certainty of death
24 Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide
25 Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty
26 Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion