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Titre(s) : The myth of an afterlife [Texte imprimé] : the case against life after death / edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine
Publication : Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, copyright 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxxi-675 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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."
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Martin, Michael (1932-2015). Éditeur scientifique
Augustine, Keith (1976-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Vie future
Indice(s) Dewey :
129 (23e éd.) = Origine et destinée de l'âme humaine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780810886773. - ISBN 0810886774. - ISBN 9780810886780 (erroné). - ISBN 0810886782.
- ISBN 9780810886780
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45656318k
Notice n° :
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Table des matières : 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.
