The Bushwick Starr Presents PHIL. 176 / OBIT, 3/22-4/5

The Bushwick Starr is proud to present multi-disciplinary artists Daniel Fish and Andrew Dinwiddie confront a monumental subject - DEATH - with a staggering amount of raw material. PHIL. 176 / OBIT is an episodic performance installation drawing simultaneously on the text of Shelly Kagan's renowned Yale College philosophy course, "PHIL 176: Death,"* and on current American obituaries and death notices.

PHIL. 176 / OBIT is a collaboration between stage and film director Daniel Fish and dance and theater artist Andrew Dinwiddie, with designers Blanca Añón, Daniel Kluger and Jeff Larson.

LECTURE SCHEDULE:

Sat March 22: Lecture 2: The Nature of Persons: Dualism vs. Physicalism

Sun March 23: Lecture 5: Arguments for the Soul, Part III: Free Will and Near-Death Experiences

Tue March 25: Lecture 10: Personal Identity, Part I: Across Space and Time and the Soul Theory

Wed March 26: Lecture 12: Personal Identity, Part III: Objections to the Personality Theory

Thu March 27: Lecture 16: Dying Alone; The Badness of Death, Part I

Fri March 28: Lecture 17: The Badness of Death, Part II: The Deprivation Account

Sat March 29: Lecture 19: Immortality Part II; The Value of Life, Part I

Sun March 30: Lecture 21: Other Bad Aspects of Death, Part II

Tue April 1: Lecture 22: Fear of Death

Wed April 2: Lecture 23: How to Live Given the Certainty of Death

Thu April 3: Lecture 24: Suicide, Part I: The Rationality of Suicide

Fri April 4: Lecture 25: Suicide, Part II: Deciding under Uncertainty

Sat April 5: Lecture 26: Suicide, Part III: The Morality of Suicide and Course Conclusion

*Shelly Kagan is Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale. After receiving his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1976, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1982, he taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at Chicago before coming to Yale in 1995. He is the author of Normative Ethics, which systematically reviews alternative positions concerning the basic rules of morality and their possible foundations; The Limits of Morality, which challenges two of the most widely shared beliefs about the requirements of morality; and The Geometry of Desert, which leads a careful investigation into the nature of moral desert. You can watch Professor Kagan's full course on "Death" at http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-176 or read his book of the same name.

Open Yale Courses (http://oyc.yale.edu/) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences

Location:

The Bushwick Starr theater: 207 Starr Street, Brooklyn, NY [between Irving and Wykcoff]

Directions:

Via Subway take the L Train to Jefferson Street, exit at Starr Street, walk against traffic on Starr, and the theater is 3/4 of a block on the right.

For detailed driving directions visit: www.thebushwickstarr.org/DIRECTIONS

Tickets are $18.00 at www.thebushwickstarr.org
After a full-price ticket purchase, patrons may return to see future performances for only $5

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