UC Berkeley Foerster Lecture with Mark Johnston: Is This Your Only Life?

Could we come to have embodiments other than our present embodiments, so that this life is not our only life? Many people think that the answer to this question is settled, though they starkly disagree about what the answer is.

For Johnston, the answer remains open. Without relying on an appeal to mystical revelation, out-of-body experiences, or religious conviction, this lecture will examine how we should think of persons and their embodiments given the failures of functionalism, reductive materialism, non-reductive materialism, and strong emergence.

This in-person event will be held at Alumni House, Toll Room, and will follow evolving public health guidelines.

For updates about this lecture and upcoming lecture series events, please visit the Berkeley Graduate Lectures website.

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