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Immortality
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Publication Date
c1997
Language
English
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The release of the soul from the chains of the body / Plato
The mind and the spirit will die / Lucretieus
The refutation of the Pythagorean doctrine of transmigration / tertullian
The resurrection of man / St. Thomas Aquinas
The incorporeal soul and its body / Rene Descartes
Personal identity, consciousness and the immaterial substance / John Locke
Of a future life / Joseph Butler
Of personal identity / David Hume
Of the immortality of the soul / David Hume
The soul, identity and immortality / Voltaire
Of the nature and origin of our notion of personal identity / Thomas Reid
Refutation of Mendelssohn's proof of the permanence of the soul / Immanuel Kant
Materialism, personal identity and life after death / Joseph Priestley
Immortality / John Stuart Mill
The theory of the soul / William James
Tantalus / Hugh Elliot
The objections to epiphenomenalism / John Foster
Preexistence, reincarnation and karma
Survival as transmigration / C.J. Ducasse
Karmic tribulations / Paul Edwards
What kind of next world? / H.H. Price
The Cartesian assumption / Antony Flew
Immortality / Peter Geach
Ther ecreation of the psycho-physical person / John Hick
The possibility of resurrection / Peter van Inwagen
Computer software and life after death / Donald MacKay
The evidence from psychical research / Paul and Linda Badham
Is there anything beyond death? A parapsychologist's summation / John Beloff
What I saw when I was dead / A.J. Ayer
On survival without a body / C.D. Broad
Is the notion of disembodied existence intelligible? / John Hospers
Consciousness, the brain and immortality / William James
The dependence of consciousness on the brain / Paul Edwards
Divided minds and the nature of persons / Derek Parfit.
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9781573921305
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