The myth of an afterlife : the case against life after death / edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Michael, 1932-2015, editor.

Augustine, Keith, 1976- editor.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Future life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (709 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2015.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foreword by Steve Stewart-WilliamsPreface 1. Introduction Keith Augustine PART 1 EMPIRICAL ARGUMENTS FOR ANNIHILATION Introduction to Part 1 2. Dead as a Doornail: Souls, Brains, and Survival Matt McCormick 3. Explaining Personality: Soul Theory versus Behavior Genetics Jean Mercer 4. Dissolution into Death: The Mind's Last Symptoms Indicate Annihilation David Weisman 5. The Argument from Brain Damage Vindicated Rocco J. Gennaro and Yonatan I. Fishman 6. No Mental Life after Brain Death: The Argument from the Neural Localization of Mental Functions Gualtiero Piccinini and Sonya Bahar 7. The Ne

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Part I: Empirical Arguments for Annihilation""; ""2 Dead as a Doornail""; ""3 Explaining Personality""; ""4 Dissolution into Death""; ""5 The Argument from BrainDamage Vindicated""; ""6 No Mental Life after Brain Death""; ""7 The Neural Substrate of Emotions and Emotional Processing""; ""8 Brain, Language, andSurvival after Death""; ""9 The Brain that Doesn�t Know Itself""; ""10 The Dualist�s Dilemma""; ""Part II: Conceptual and Empirical Difficulties for Survival""; ""11 Why Survival is Metaphysically Impossible""

""12 Conceptual Problems Confronting a Totally Disembodied Afterlife""""13 What Could Pair a Nonphysical Soul to a Physical Body?""; ""14 Nonphysical Souls Would Violate Physical Laws""; ""15 There is No Trace of Any SoulLinked to the Body""; ""16 Since Physical Formulas are not Violated, No Soul Controls the Body""; ""17 The Implausibility of Astral Bodies and Astral Worlds""; ""18 The Pluralizability Objection to a New-Body Afterlife""; ""19 Life After Death and theDevastation of the Grave""; ""Part III: Problematic Models of the Afterlife""; ""20 Problems with Heaven""

""21 Can God Condemn One to an Afterlife in Hell?""""22 Objections to Karma and Rebirth""; ""Part IV: Dubious Evidence for Survival""; ""23 Giving Up the Ghost to Psychology""; ""24 Out-of-Body Experiences are not Evidence for Survival""; ""25 Near-Death Experiences are Hallucinations""; ""26 A Critique of Ian Stevenson�sRebirth Research""; ""27 Is There Adequate Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation?""; ""28 Conjecturing Up Spirits in the Improvisations of Mediums""; ""29 Madness in the Method""; ""30 Is There Life After Death?""; ""Index""; ""About the Contributors""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-40010-3

0-8108-8678-2

OCLC:

905225213