Podcast appearance Open Highway
I had a chat with Eric Erickson on his great podcast The Open Highway. https://theopenhighway.podbean.com/
Review for The Case against Death in Prospect Magazine
Philosopher Ingemar Patrick Linden says exactly what he thinks about dying. His polemic, The Case Against Death, argues that death is the ultimate scourge of humanity. “I enjoy watching snow drift on a winter’s day,” he writes. “That’s enough for me to hate death.” If life is good, we should do all we can to resist …
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THE CASE AGAINST DEATH IS OFFICIALLY RELEASED!
Get it, read it and leave a review! This is the first ever comprehensive philosophical argument against death!
We Picked a Cover
After much thinking and feeling, we decided to skip the skulls and bones and vanitas paintings for some apples:
Mention in the Financial Times
“Others now dare to think rather differently. In his forthcoming book The Case Against Death, philosopher Ingemar Patrick Linden points out that evolutionary biology explains why we age and die, but not that we must age and die, or that we ought to. “If our life and future is valuable,” he writes, “then dying is …
Should We Fear Death?
Yes. Fear is an appropriate response to something that is harmful and death is very harmful. In fact, if we believe in evolution we know that fear of such things that kill us, is the origin of fear. The next question -a question that needs to be separated from the first- is, how much time …
Kind Words
This book addresses many of the ‘curmudgeonly’ arguments about immortality that are (too) much in vogue. Linden argues persuasively that death can indeed be a bad thing for an individual and that immortality could indeed be worthy of a choice. It helps to achieve a balance in the contemporary debates about the these issues, and …