Philosophy and the Belief in a Life after Death

1. Front Matter

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2. Philosophy, Belief and Disbelief

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   Pages 1-20

3. Problems of Post-Mortem Identity

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4. The Mental and the Physical

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5. General Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul

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6. The Evidence from Psychical Research

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7. The Concept of an Afterlife

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8. Back Matter

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This book critically examines the case for and against the belief in personal survival of bodily death. It discusses key philosophical questions. How could a discarnate individual be identified as a person who was once alive? What is the relationship between minds and their brains? Is a 'next world' conceivable? The book also examines classic arguments for the immortality of the soul, and focuses on types of prima facie evidence of survival: near-death experiences, apparitions, mediumistic communications, and ostensible reincarnation cases.

• communication
• concept
• death
• experience
• identity
• immortality
• individual
• life after death
• philosophy

• University of Hull, UK

  R. K. W. Paterson

R.W.K.PATERSON

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