Bernard Williams argues that human mortality is a good thing because living forever would
necessarily be intolerably boring. His argument is often attacked for unfoundedly proposing …

Responding to a well-known essay by Bernard Williams, philosophers (and a few
theologians) have engaged in what I call “the Makropulos debate,” a debate over whether …

Bernard Williams has famously argued that an immortal life would necessarily be boring.
Despite the obvious importance that boredom occupies in Williams's argument, he says very …

God is thought to be eternal. Does this mean that he is timeless? Or is he, rather,
omnitemporal? In this article we argue that God cannot be omnitemporal. Our starting point …

In this chapter I argue that choosing to live forever comes with the threat of an especially
pernicious kind of boredom. However, it may be theoretically possible to circumvent it by …

Travis Timmerman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seton Hall University and
executive committee member of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death …

We usually take it to be a bad thing when someone dies. But is the general fact that humans
die a bad thing? Some have argued that our own mortality is for the best; if we lived long …