BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4//
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20260403T182857EDT-3483LiUJAL@132.216.98.100
DTSTAMP:20260403T222857Z
DESCRIPTION:Interdisciplinary Speaker Series\n\n'When Death Comes'\n\nEvan 
 Thompson (University of British Columbia)\n	Tuesday\, October 29\, 2024\n	6:
 00-8:00 PM\n	Leacock 927\n\nAbstract: Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyic
 h\, despite being a work of fiction\, remains unsurpassed for its descript
 ion of dying as the ultimate transformative experience and still holds unt
 apped insights for philosophy. I will use Tolstoy’s story for the followin
 g philosophical ends. My first aim is to investigate dying as a transforma
 tive experience. This will involve adjudicating between two rival philosop
 hical interpretations of The Death of Ivan Ilyich\, one by Frances Kamm wh
 o argues that Ivan does undergo a transformative experience\, and the othe
 r by Gerald Lang who argues that he does not. My second aim is to describe
  in phenomenological terms what I will call “the ungraspability of death.”
  This will involve defending Freud’s claim that “one’s own death is beyond
  imagining” against Shelly Kagan’s criticisms of it. My third aim is to us
 e Tolstoy’s story to show the failures in Heidegger’s account of death. My
  fourth and final aim is to show how Tolstoy’s story culminates not in a d
 enial of death\, as Daniel Rancour-Laferriere has argued\, but rather in a
  kind of mysticism about death\, one which also calls into question Heideg
 ger’s fundamental ontology of our finitude.\n
DTSTART:20241029T220000Z
DTEND:20241030T000000Z
LOCATION:Room 927\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Evan Thompson (University of British Columbia)\, 'When Death Comes'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/channels/event/evan-thompson-universit
 y-british-columbia-when-death-comes-360625
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR