Ryan Ratchford

I completed my First Class BA in Philosophy in 2020, and my MA in Philosophy with Distinction in 2021; both at the University of Manchester.

Teaching Assistant: "Introduction to Ethics" - 1st Year course, Semester 1, 2022-2023

My research looks into the desirability of extremely long-lived lives. I argue the claims that these open-ended lives are necessarily boring and lack a sense of meaning without the finitude of death. I also explore how one's sense of personal identity, in the form of a self-narrative, is effected by longevity; and what a near immortal's self-narrative would look like.

Supervisors: Dr. Joel Smith; Dr Stephen Ingram