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The myth of an afterlife : the case against life after death /
"In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife. Divided...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
Rowman and Littlefield,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: on the origin of afterlife beliefs by means of memetic selection / Steve Stewart-Williams
- Introduction / Keith Augustine
- Part I: Empirical arguments for annihilation
- Dead as a doornail: souls, brains, and survival / Matt McCormick
- Explaining personality: soul theory versus behavior genetics / Jean Mercer
- Dissolution into death: the mind's last symptoms indicate annihilation / Davis Weisman
- The argument from brain damage vindicated / Rocco J. Gennaro and Yonatan I. Fishman
- No mental life after brain death: the argument from neural localization of mental functions / Gualtiero Piccinini and Sonya Bahar
- The neural substrate of emotions and emotional processing / Carlos J. Álvarez
- Brain, language, and survival after death / Terence Hines
- The brain that doesn't know itself: persons oblivious to their neurological deficits / Jamie Horder
- The dualist's dilemma: the high cost of reconciling neuroscience with a soul / Keith Augustine and Yonatan I. Fishman
- Part II: Conceptual and empirical difficulties for survival
- Why survival is metaphysically impossible / Raymond D. Bradley
- Conceptual problems confronting a totally disembodied afterlife / Theodore M. Drange
- What could pair nonphysical soul to a physical body? / Jaegwon Kim
- Nonphysical souls would violate physical laws / David L. Wilson
- These is no trace of any soul linked to the body / Daniel Papineau
- Since physical formulas are not violated, no soul controls the body / Leonard Angel
- The implausibility of astral bodies and astral worlds / Susan Blackmore
- The pluralizability objection to a new-body afterlife / Theodore M. Drange
- Life after death and the devastation of the grave / Eric T. Olson
- Part III: Problematic models of the afterlife
- Problems with heaven / Michael Martin
- Can God condemn one to an afterlife in hell? / Raymond D. Bradley
- Objections to karma and rebirth: an introduction / Ingrid Hansen Smythe
- Part IV: Dubious evidence for survival
- giving up the ghost to psychology / Rense Lange and James Houran
- Out-of-body experiences are not evidence for survival / Susan Blackmore
- Near-death experiences are hallucinations / Keith Augustine
- A critique of Ian Stevenson's rebirth research / Champe Ransom
- Is there adequate empirical evidence for reincarnation?: an analysis of Ian Stevenson's work / Leonard Angel
- Conjecturing up spirits in the improvisations of mediums / Claus Flodin Larsen
- Madness in the method: fatal flaws in recent mediumship experiments / Christian Battista, Nicolas Gauvrit, and Etienne LeBel
- Is there life after death?: a review of the supporting evidence / David Lester.