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Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything

Conversations with Tyler

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Should We Fear Death?

The late Derek Parfitt toyed with the hypothesis that if we had a weaker belief in the continuity of self, we would fear deathless. I think it's rational to fear death," he says. "I think the rationality of that is bound up with the demand for courage in the face of death"

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