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On the possibility of imagining one’s death| title | On the possibility of imagining one’s death |
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| start_date | 2026/02/16 |
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| schedule | 10h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle réunion, Pavillon jardin & Online |
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| summary | This talk analyzes the resistance that arises when agents attempt to imagine their own death. While philosophical aesthetics has long discussed imaginative resistance, our reluctance or inability to imagine certain propositions as true within fiction, a structurally comparable form of resistance appears in trying to imagine one’s death. I argue that the latter constitutes a “reverse” form of imaginative resistance: in imagining our own death we resist treating imagined propositions as actual and treat them as fictional instead. This account helps make sense of meaningful reflection on death and the role imagination plays in philosophical evaluations of death’s harm. In the talk, I will proceed, first, by comparing and contrasting standard imaginative resistance and the resistance to imagining one’s death, second, by examining the state of treating oneself as fictional, and third, by considering some benefits of fictionalizing one’s dead self. |
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| responsibles | Dokic, Arcangeli |
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| submitted | published | | 2026/02/03 10:39 UTC |
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