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Soul, Body, and Survival : Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons /

How are soul and body related to one another? Are human beings immaterial souls, or complex physical organisms? Will we survive the death of our bodies? Does only the dualist view allow the possibility of life after death? This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the metaphysics of h...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Corcoran, Kevin, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A brief defense of the Cartesian view / John Foster
  • Lonely souls : causality and substance dualism / Jaegwon Kim
  • Causality, mind, and free will / Timothy O'Connor
  • Emergentism and consciousness : going beyond property dualism / Charles Taliaferro
  • A compound of two substances / Eric T. Olson
  • Modal dualism : a critique / Stewart Goetz
  • Persons as emergent substances / William Hasker
  • Souls dipped in dust / Brian Leftow
  • Identity, composition, and the simplicity of the self / E.J. Lowe
  • Materialism with a human face / Lynne Baker
  • How to live forever without saving your soul : physicalism and immortality / Trenton Merricks
  • Physical persons and postmortem survival without temporal gaps / Kevin Corcoran
  • Biblical anthropology and the body-soul problem / John Cooper
  • Physicalism and resurrection / Stephen T. Davis.