Death

I “took” this Yale course a couple of years ago and found it fascinating, thoughtful, engaging, and edifying (or, I agreed with it!). You too can take it here. Shelly Kagan is superb. In fact this course mad him a ‘star’ in China. Those lectures have been published as a book now and here is a review of that book.

Review – Death
by Shelly Kagan
Yale University Press, 2012
Review by Brad Frazier, Ph.D.
Jun 25th 2013 (Volume 17, Issue 26)

Death, by Shelly Kagan, a philosopher at Yale, is a book based on a course Kagan regularly teaches at Yale. The book is advertised as part of “The Open Yale Courses Series.” Accordingly, the intended audience for the book consists of a “wide variety” of “curious” readers who are looking for an introduction to the topic of death from a philosophically informed perspective. (I am not going to discuss here the ongoing debate about massive open online courses (or “MOOCs” as they are called). (Read the review)