PHIL 1200 Lecture 37: Lecture 37

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1200
• Professor: David R.Hampton

Document Summary

Suppose i borrowed from you 10 years ago. Could i say that it was not i that borrowed the money (and therefore that i owe you nothing), since all cells of my body have changed. John perry ~ a dialogue on personal identity. Gretchen weirob (philosophy professor) is about to die sam. Provide an argument in favour of the possibility of immortality dave cohen (former student of weirob) It gives her some comfort to think that there is a logical possibility of existing even after her death. Miller offers a variety of religious theories of afterlife. Weirob immediately dismisses those theories such as buddhism, which claims that after death we become one with the universe. In some sense such theories are not that different from the scientific account of what happens after death. The molecules that compose weirob s body will become something else and (cid:498)join(cid:499) the rest of the world.