In lieu of an in-person conference, IAPDD will be holding a weeklong online symposium July 26-30, 2021. Margaret Battin (Utah) will provide the keynote address. A full schedule of presentations will be available in mid-June. Deakin University will be the coordinating institution for the online symposium. More details to come!
2021 Symposium Presentations
Roman Altshuler, “Meaning, Death, and Nationalism”
Adam Buben “The Dark Side of Desire: Nietzsche, Transhumanism, and Personal Immortality”
Jasmin Contos, “Termination in B-time?”
Nicolas Delon, “Procreative Asymmetry and Replaceable Animals”
David Gurney, “The Ethics of Underground Deathing”
Courtney Hempton, “Cause of Death: The Obfuscation of ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying’”
Yael Lavi, “What`s Wrong with the AAS Statement?: Comments on the American Association of Suicidology’s 2017 Statement “‘Suicide’ is not the same as ‘physician aid in dying’”
David Lindeman, “A Comment on Benatar’s ‘Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence’”
Emer O’Hagan, “Mortality and the Goods of Grieving”
Marilyn Piety, “What Boredom? Whose Immortality?”
Travis Rebello, “Death for the Disconsolate: To Philosophize is Not to Learn How to Die”
Walter Reid, “Suicide & the Pessimism Controversy”
Patrick Stokes, “Selves, Persons, and the Symmetry Problem”
Rosalie Waelen, “Meaning and Morality: Considering Existential Harm in Life Extension”
