The myth of an afterlife : the case against life after death /
edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine.
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
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| Omfang | xxxi, 675 sider;
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "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 into four separate sections, this collection opens with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest evidence of whether or not we survive death - in particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next, contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of "surviving" death - from bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Then essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife - heaven, hell, karmic rebirth - and widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems supporting those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife."-- Omslaget
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| Emner | Future life.
livet etter døden mytologi religion sjelevandring empiriske undersøkelser udødelighet evig liv religionskritikk |
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| ISBN | 9780810886773 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| ISBN(galt) | 9780810886780 (ebook)
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