Michael Rabenberg is a PhD candidate in Philosophy. His research focuses on ethics, personal identity, and their interface. His dissertation comprises three self-standing but interrelated essays, in which he seeks to answer three questions about death. First, how bad is death for the one who dies, and why it is as bad for the one who dies as it is? Second, are people rationally justified in caring greatly about not existing after they die, but not at all about the fact they did not exist before they came into existence? Third, is it the case that you may not kill one innocent person to prevent (say) two other innocent persons from being killed, but may kill one innocent person to prevent (say) 1 billion other innocent persons from being killed? At Harvard, Rabenberg has been the Philosophy Department Writing Fellow, a teaching fellow for undergraduate and graduate courses in ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of religion, and a research assistant to an Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence. He holds an AB in Philosophy and English from Kenyon College.

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