The Philosophy and Theology of Immortality University of Hull 2015

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1 The Philosophy and Theology of Immortality University of Hull 2015 (Larkin Building) Thursday, 21 May 12:00 12:30 Registration and Refreshments (Ground Floor Circulation Area) 12:30 12:45 Welcome and Introduction () 12:45 14:15 Keynote () Professor John Harris University of Manchester Title TBA 14:20 15:50 Parallel Sessions 1 (Lecture Theatres A, C & F) 15:50 16:20 Refreshment Break (Ground Floor Circulation Area) 16:20 17:50 Parallel Sessions 2 (Lecture Theatres A, C & F) 17:50 19:30 Wine Reception (Ground Floor Circulation Area) 19:30 Networking and Social Opportunity (Old Grey Mare) Friday, 22 May 09:00 10:30 Keynote () Professor Eric Olson University of Sheffield Varieties of immortality worth thinking about 10:30 11:00 Refreshment Break (Ground Floor Circulation Area) 11:00 12:30 Parallel Sessions 3 (Lecture Theatres A, C & F) 12:30 13:30 Lunch (Tranby Room, Staff House) 13:30 15:00 Parallel Sessions 4 (Lecture Theatres A, C & F) 15:00 18:30 Trip to Beverly Minster 18:30 20:00 Conference Dinner (Jubilee Room, Staff House) Saturday, 23 May 09:00 10:30 Parallel Sessions 5 (Lecture Theatres A, C & F) 10:30 11:00 Refreshment Break (Ground Floor Circulation Area) 11:00 12:30 Keynote () Professor Richard Swinburne University of Oxford How the possibility of heaven makes life on earth more worth living 12:30 Conference Ends

2 Parallel Sessions 1: Thursday, 21 May, 14:20 15:50 Adam Buben University of Leiden Richard J Elliott University of London Yuuki Ohta University of Oxford Heidegger and the supposed meaninglessness of personal immortality Being and becoming towards death: Thinking about mortality and meaning through Heidegger and Nietzsche Immortality as life Benjamin Matheson University of Manchester Paul Sandu University of Freiburg Joshua Thomas University of Sheffield The trouble with immortality Mortality, finitude and the other The circumstances of value: Resisting Samuel Scheffler s claims about death and immortality Daniel Came University of Hull Christian Loew University of Cologne Federico Perelda University of Venice Trans-humanism and the denial of death Precious and pathetic: The value of mortality Metaphysics and the dread of death

3 Parallel Sessions 2: Thursday, 21 May, 16:20 17:50 Anthony Okpanachi University of Hull Olisa Godson Muojama University of Ibadan Immortality in Igala (an African) thought Reincarnation and immortality in Igbo cosmology: A neo-pagan reconstruction Yotam Benziman Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chris Friel Maryvale Institute Stephan Blatti University of Memphis Dead people and living interests Ghosts don t tell stories Unresting Death Anna Smajdor University of East Anglia Daniel Cunningham Villanova University Christopher Roser Humboldt Univeristy Berlin Can reproductive autonomy be founded in our wish to perpetuate our genes? The idea of immortality and the tradition of the oppressed: Species-being and its consequences in Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno Immortality and hope: In defense of Plato s Pheado

4 Parallel Sessions 3: Friday, 22 May, 11:00 12:30 Natalja Deng University of Cambridge Ludovic Noble University of Edinburgh Sebastian Ostritsch University of Stuttgart On whether B-theoretic atheists should fear death What are the implications of the unreality of time on immortality? On the inconsistency of endless temporal duration Mark Coeckelbergh De Montfort University Emily Cousens Oxford Brookes University David Worsley University of York Existential vulnerability, mortality, and the transhumanist project of human enhancement Vulnerability, intersubjectivity and the gendered lived experience of mortality Could there be suffering in paradise? Elizabeth Burns University of London Christopher Davies Vanderbilt University Christopher Belshaw The Open University Evil and the afterlife Justice without immortality Immortality, memory and imagination

5 Parallel Sessions 4: Friday, 22 May, 13:30 15:00 Gelu Sabău University of Iasi Thomas Atkinson University of Liverpool David Lawton Soma pneumatikon: The meanings of a Pauline concept Defining some parameters for organism survival across death Is survival as somatic as it is psychic? Dong Zhao Beijing Foreign Studies University Patric Gnanapragasam University of Madras Ian Bacher University of Nottingham Achieving immortality: Constructing the Chinese afterdeath identity through folk religious funeral rituals Encounter of Christian and Indian eschatologies, and its implications for public theology today Can bonbu desire death? Some Shin Buddhist reflections on suicide and immortality

6 Parallel Sessions 5: Saturday, 23 May, 09:00 10:30 James Turner University of Edinburgh Stephen Burwood University of Hull Joshua Mugg York University, Toronto On two reasons Christian theologians should reject the intermediate state Descartes conception of an afterlife If there is an afterlife, physicalism is (probably) true Jacob Adler University of Arkansas Steven DeLay University of Oxford Johann Roduit University of Zurich Immortality as conjunction with the agent intellect The phenomenological argument for immortality Enhancing towards the last universal common descendant

7 Registration, introduction as well as all keynotes and sessions are taking place in the Larkin Building.