# Shelly Kagan

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2016 Annual Uehiro Lecture 1: Consequentialism for Cows

Professor Shelly Kagan delivers the first of three Annual Uehiro Lectures in Practical Ethics, ‘How to Count Animals, More or Less’ Much contemporary writing on animal ethics is "egalitarian" in the sense that otherwise similar harms (or goods) for people and nonhuman animals are thought to count e…

#93 Death Isn’t the Problem. Delay Is.

Send Jim a Topic to Explore We don’t talk about death very clearly. We whisper about it at funerals…then scroll past confident voices explaining how to manage it. This episode started with a conversation on a plane — about a Yale philosophy course taught by Shelly Kagan, and a deceptively simple qu…

Why the Resurrection Changes Everything (If It's True) | N. T. Wright & Shelly Kagan

In today’s episode, a theologian and a philosopher explore what happens when we die. They discuss questions like, Is death the end, or is it the beginning of something new? And how do Christian claims about Jesus’ Resurrection change the way we think about death today? You’ll hear from …

TYCD: Extra Credit - Utilitarianism, Drowning Hitler, Stealing the Enterprise

In today's Extra Credit, I talk a little (okay, a LOT) more about utilitarianism, some of its strengths and weaknesses, some important thinkers in its history, and my view on why the way that we currently teach it is missing something. 10:05 | RM Hare, "Ethical Theory and Utilitarianism" 14:16 | JJ…

Episode 17 - "Should I pick this flower?"

In this episode, Steve and Christabel discuss environmental ethics, prompted by Steve’s daughter asking if she should pick a flower she found growing by the roadside. Our hosts use Immanuel Kant’s formula of the universal law to provide both a full moral accounting of London bus stops, and a rigoro…

Episode 18 - "Why don't we eat meat?"

This week, our hosts tackle a question from Steve’s kids as to why in their house, they’re vegetarian. Steve tells us that he doesn’t eat, buy or prepare meat for environmental reasons, reminiscing about a global warming meetup he’d attended: harrowing reports as to the ecological damage being done…

The Experience Machine

A clip of professor Shelly Kagan discussing the famous thought experiment of the experience machine which comes from Robert Nozick and which serves as an argument against hedonism about well-being. This comes from a lecture on death given at the Southern Methodist University back in 2013. Uploaded …

Do Human Beings Have Souls?

The majority of Americans believe that every human being has an immaterial soul, and they tend to base their sense of human dignity and equality on this belief. Yet the culture at large often operates under the assumption that physical reality is all there is. Which view is correct? In this episode…

3. Pennies and Shelly Kagan on Death

I started watching a seventeen-year-old course of lectures about death by Shelly Kagan on Yale's youtube (Phil176) and it threatens to ruin this season of the podcast. @joshandsallypodcast