Is This Your Only Life?

Embodiment affects how we understand personhood, moral status, and whether this life is our only life. Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam University Professor, Princeton University, explains how competing theories of mind and matter shape the question of whether a will could have an embodiment other than its present one. Johnston examines the failures of functionalism, reductive and non-reductive materialism, and strong emergence, along with the role of will, awareness, and evolved animal life, helping clarify what embodiment really is. He explains why the will matters for moral respect and points toward the possibility that embodiment may not be limited to a single life. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 41446]

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Is This Your Only Life? is an episode from UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures (Video) by UCTV.

This episode is 01:20:13 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2026.

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