‘Intimations of immortality’: a response to Bernard Williams

‘Intimations of immortality’: a response to Bernard Williams

In this article, I address Bernard Williams's famous objection to immortality. Following others, I conceive of Williams's argument as presenting a dilemma for those who hope in immortality. The first lemma involves utter boredom, while the second lemma involves loss of one's distincti...

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