In lieu of an in-person conference, IAPDD will be holding a weeklong online symposium July 26-30, 2021. A full schedule of presentations will be available in early July. Deakin University will be the coordinating institution for the online symposium.
Symposium program, including abstracts and Zoom meeting details, available here
- CORRECTION TO PROGRAM: N. Delon, “Procreative asymmetry and replaceable animals” is scheduled for Wednesday June 28:
| UTC | Brit Summer | US East | US Pac | Melbourne/AEST |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | 9:00 | 6:00 | 23:00 |
Symposium video channel available here
2021 Symposium Presentations
Keynote address: Margaret Battin, “Ending One’s Life in Advance”
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”
Christopher Frugé, “Value After Death”
David Gurney, “The Ethics of Underground Deathing”
Courtney Hempton, “Cause of Death: The Obfuscation of ‘Voluntary Assisted Dying’”
Asha Lancaster-Thomas, “A Fate Worse than Death? The Comparative Axiology of the Afterlife in Religious and Nonreligious Worldviews.”
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”
Patrick Stokes, “Selves, Persons, and the Symmetry Problem”
Rosalie Waelen, “Meaning and Morality: Considering Existential Harm in Life Extension”
