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Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Death

Baruch Spinoza was famous for equating God with Nature - a view that many of his contemporaries, perhaps rightly, thought was a form of atheism. But what did he think about death? Spinoza expert Steven Nadler, author of A Book Forged in Hell, and more recently Think Least of Death, discusses this aspect of his thought with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. 

Listen to Steven Nadler on Spinoza on Death

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Read Nigel Warburton's recent Five Books interview with Steven Nadler on the best books by and about Spinoza

 

Shelly Kagan on Death and Deprivation

What, if anything, is bad about death, apart from the process of dying? Death often involves deprivation - is that the what makes death bad? Perhaps. Shelly Kagan discusses death and deprivation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. 

Listen to Shelly Kagan on Death and Deprivation

Read a related short article on death by Shelly Kagan (from The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Shelly Kagan's extremely popular video lecture course about death

^{Listen to an earlier Philosophy Bites interview with Shelly Kagan on Speciesism}

 

Shaun Nichols on Death and the Self

How do our views about the. self affect our views about death? Shaun Nichols discusses this question with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Listen to Shaun Nichols on Death and the Self (link fixed)

This interview was recorded  at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics on the occasion of Professor Nichols'  2015 Wellcome & Loebel Lecture in Neuroethics (audio from link).