Infinity Goes Up On Trial: Must Immortality Be Meaningless?

European Journal of Philosophy 17 (1):30-44 (2009)
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Critically debates the distinction of different types of boredom and its impact on Williams’s argument, as well as the question of why personal identity should be threatened by eternally having new ground projects.

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