03899nam 2200553 450 991079705370332120170822123054.00-8108-8678-2(CKB)3710000000376807(EBL)1991643(OCoLC)905225213(SSID)ssj0001459506(PQKBManifestationID)12641081(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001459506(PQKBWorkID)11465089(PQKB)10019220(MiAaPQ)EBC1991643(EXLCZ)99371000000037680720150330h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe myth of an afterlife the case against life after death /edited by Michael Martin and Keith AugustineLanham, Maryland :Rowman & Littlefield,2015.©20151 online resource (709 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-336-20610-1 0-8108-8677-4 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.""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 Doesnâ€?t Know Itself""; ""10 The Dualistâ€?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 Stevensonâ€?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""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 NeFuture lifeFuture life.129236.2Martin MichaelAugustine KeithMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797053703321The myth of an afterlife3793053UNINA