Sunday Lecture – Infinity and Immortality

Adrian Moore shall consider questions that arise in connection with the desirability or otherwise of immortality. In particular he will address Bernard William’s argument that a never-ending life would eventually become tedious to the point of unendurability. Moore will suggest that there are two questions that need to be distinguished even though they can easily appear to be equivalent. First would immortality be preferable to mortality? And second is death a bad thing? Distinguishing these questions helps us to understand better the force of Williams’ argument.; Adrian Moore is professor of philosophy at St Hugh’s College Oxford and author of Contemporary Kantian Metaphysics: New Essays on Space and Time.; 11.00 £3 on the door/free to members