Yale Philosopher Shelly Kagan on Death, Deprivation and Rational Regret 

On April 24th of last year, my Universe imploded- The Love of My Life-to this time and point-and for all and any I could ever have or think I might imagine-anyway-died. The Hope and Light and Purpose I could Never have imagined being without-snuffed out Forever. Thank you Dr. Kagan-for helping me to try to Adult my way Forward through this tragedy instead of regressing to childish wishes however tempting they may seem. It may not be an exaggeration to say that your lectures have saved my very life over the past year, sir!

Lecture starts at 5:20 ♥

I NEED TO SEE THAT OFF-BROADWAY PLAY OF PHIL176 DEATH!!!!

Prof. Shelly reminds me of my professor of philosophy at Minnesota state university. Similar passion for what they are teaching.

Not sure if Shelly will see these comments but, for the thought experiments 44 min in, how about a world in which you purchase a lottery ticket to be drawn 10 years into the future. It seems to me in that case one is unlikely to be particularly upset if they were to lose. I wonder if this is due to expectations waning over time. Perhaps the amount of regret is tied more closely to expectation, given that neither the probability or the remoteness have altered in this example. However, this would still leave the question of how much expectation ought to be rational for a given example.

Lecture starts at 6:37

15:41 the bads that haven’t happened to me ❤😂

I think this is a pseudoproblem stemming from a misconception of misfortune / regrettableness. I think Contrastivism can dispel this one.

"Tonight... lecture? What? Oh deprivation, yes." Talked full 5 minutes to represent the lecturer and forgets the whole purpose. Good job. She must have said, "Wait! Who am i talking about? Oh Shelley Kagan! Yes."

I have watched most of his Philosophy of Death lectures. I stopped at the 23rd lecture: How to live given the certainty of death. The reason being that he said at 45:29 "It all make sense, and I have tremendous respect for Buddhism, given the thought that life is suffering. But for better of worse, I am the child of the west." Wait a minute. So Philosophy is about tribalism? What or who actually defines Truth in Philosophy? He said a lot of time in previous lectures such as, "I don't buy it" or "It doesn't seem right to me" or "most of us would prefer this rather than that" without reference to any research or surveys of any kind. Also I found that Shelly Kagan has three children despite the facts that social scientists' research said that children don't bring happiness. There is a youtube video where he discuss about children with some Yale students' parents. I think this is embarrassing. The first rate philosopher has three children despite the fact that the experience doesn't bring him happiness? Wow. I started to value lowly his opinions in those lectures. One that really disturbs me is that according to him, immortality is not good as you think and people will choose death rather than immortality. Who are you, Shelly Kagan, to dare to say that? Do you ever have an immortal life? Is there any research on immortal life whatsoever? Are the whole lectures about Death is only about you trying to force down your views on other throats?