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Death | Travis Timmerman

Brain in a Vat

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The Metaphysics of Death

In this chapter, the speakers discuss the metaphysics of death and the different views on what constitutes death. They acknowledge the difficulty of finding a satisfactory answer and decide not to take a stance on it. They also argue that what matters is whether an event deprives someone of intrinsically good or bad things, rather than whether it is classified as death or something else.

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