The International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying aims to hold an Affiliated Group session at the Eastern APA in 2022. The meeting will be held 5-8 of January at a location that, due to the pandemic, remains to be determined. We are soliciting abstracts of 300-500 words on a range of topics related to death and dying, including the metaphysics of death, attitudes toward death, immortality, suicide, the relation between death and meaning in life, dying as a process, the death of others, and philosophical implications of death-related technologies. Questions and abstracts (along with author’s name, position, institution, and contact information) should be sent to Roman Altshuler (altshuler.roman@gmail.com) by July 15, 2021. Please write “APA Session Submission” in the subject of the e-mail. Everyone presenting at the conference must be a member of the APA at the time of presentation and registered for the conference.
PAST IAPDD GROUP SESSIONS AT THE APA
2020 Eastern APA
Topic: Being Dead and Being Mortal
Chair: David Beglin (University of California, Los Angeles)
Speakers:
Roman Altshuler (Kutztown University) “Death: State and Limit”
August Gorman (Princeton University) “Discounting the Desire to Die”
Jeff Noonan (University of Windsor) “The Importance of Being Frank about Dying”
Heine Holmen (University of Tromsø) “The Meaning of Death”
Topic: Immortality and the Badness of Death
Chair: James DiGiovanna (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Speakers:
Adam Buben (Leiden University) “What’s the Point: Meaninglessness in Mortality and Immortality”
Joseph Ulatowski (University of Waikato) and David Beisecker (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) “The Exhaustion of Science and the Tedium of Immortality”
Greg Bognar (Stockholm University and Princeton University Center for Human Values) “The Value of Longevity”
J. L. Contos (University of Edinburgh) “Termination Without Time?”
2021 Eastern APA
Topic: Death and Dying
Chair: Roman Altshuler (Kutztown University)
Speakers:
Samantha Brennan (University of Guelph) “Gender Inequality and the Badness of Death”
Jordan MacKenzie (Virginia Tech) and Adam Lerner (New York University) “May Surrogates Request Physician Assisted Death?”
Rhys Southan (University of Oxford) “Annihilation and David Benatar’s Dilemma”
