PHL 900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Permadeath, Dementia, How To Be Dead
9 Nov 2017
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Rosenbaum how to be dead and not care, A) one experiences a state of affairs only if it affects one is some way (causal element) B) temporal assumption surely a state of affairs can casually affect a person only if the person exists after the state of affairs begins to occur, for effects occur only after their causes (necessary) ), for any cause a and any effect b, a must come first. Recognize experience has a necessary causal character and casualty works a certain way such that premise (3) is reasonable. Rosenbaum considers two challengers to the epicurean argument: Nagel: a state of affairs is bad for person p if p can experience it at some time. Unknown betrayal by friends is an evil which a person might not consciously experience in all those cases it"s not impossible to find out, you could find out. The force of can is important here rosenbaum notes:
