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Programme, abstracts and drafts
The conference took place over two days and included a
mixed programme of invited and submitted papers. The submitted papers
were presented in paired sessions dedicated to particular themes.
This page contains abstracts of the conference talks and
presentations from the event, together with drafts of some of the papers.
This material is copyright should not be quoted or cited without the permission
of their authors.
A booklet
containing abstracts of all the conference talks in pdf format is
available here. [PDF file, 169 KB]
The abstracts, draft papers and presentations are presented
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17th July
| 9-00 am |
Registration with tea and coffee |
| 10-15 am |
Welcome |
| 10-30 am |
Eric Olson (University of Sheffield) ‘The
Epicurean View of Death’ Abstract
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| 11-30 am |
What is death? |
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Steve Holland (University of York) ‘Being
in a quandary about what death is’ Abstract |
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Chris Belshaw (Open University) ‘Brains
and Biology’ Abstract
Draft Paper
Note from Chris: This is only a draft, especially the endnotes. Please
do not quote. Any comments or feedback would be very welcome. If there
are any questions, I'll try to answer them. |
| 1-00 pm |
Lunch |
| 2-00 pm |
Matthew Hanser (University of California, Santa
Barbara) ‘Where’s the harm in dying?’ Abstract
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| 3-00 pm |
Jens Johansson (University of Oxford) ‘Temporalism
about death’s badness’ Abstract |
| 4-00 pm |
Tea and coffee |
| 4-30 pm |
David Pugmire (University of Southampton) ‘Against
Supermouse’ Abstract
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| 5-30 pm |
Fearing death |
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Kathy Behrendt (Wilfred Laurier University, Ontario)
‘A special way of being afraid: fear of death as such’
Abstract |
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Tom Cochrane (Swiss Centre for the Affective
Sciences, Geneva) ‘The fear of death and its sublime consolation’
Abstract Full
Paper [PDF] |
| 7-30 pm |
Conference dinner |
| 18th July |
| 9-00 am |
Death’s badness |
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Havi Carel (University of the West of England) ‘More
is not better than less: Epicurean responses to deprivation theory’
Abstract |
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Chris Wareham (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal) ‘Death,
betrayal and the timing of relational harms’ Abstract
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| 10-30 am |
Tea and coffee |
| 10-45 am |
Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham) ‘Death
and the value of human agency’
Abstract |
| 11-45 am |
Immortality |
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Mikel Burley (University of Leeds) ‘Immortality
and meaning: reflections on the Makropoulos debate’ Abstract
| Full paper
[PDF] |
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Tim Chappell (Open University) ‘Immortality and
Identity’ Abstract
Full Paper
[PDF] |
| 1-15 pm |
Lunch |
| 2-15 pm |
Grief and Mourning |
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Patrick Stokes (University of Copenhagen) ‘Duties
to the dead: a Kierkegaardian phenomenology of remembrance’
Abstract |
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Carolyn Price (Open University) ‘The rationality
of grief’ Abstract |
| 3-45 pm |
Tea and coffee |
| 4-00 pm |
Steven Luper (Trinity University, San Antonio ) ‘Suicide’
Abstract |
| 5-00 pm |
Farewell |
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