The myth of an afterlife : the case against life after death /

"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...

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மற்ற எழுத்தாளர்கள்: Martin, Michael, 1932-2015, (Editor), Augustine, Keith, (Editor)
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வெளியீடப்பட்டது: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
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பொருளடக்கம்:
  • 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.