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THE MYTH OF AN AFTERLIFE
THE CASE AGAINST LIFE AFTER DEATH |
| By: |
Michael Martin, Keith Augustine |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810886774 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810886773 |
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| Publisher: |
ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD |
| Pub. date: |
12 March, 2015 |
| Pages: |
708 |
| Synopsis: |
In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Keith Augustine and Michael Martin collect a series of contributions that provide a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife all in one place. Divided into four separate sections, this essay collection opens the volume with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest available evidence as to whether or not we survive death-in particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of "surviving" death-from bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Next essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife-Heaven, Hell, karmic rebirth-and widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems undergirding those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife. |
| Illustrations: |
6 black & white illustrations, 8 black & white halftones, 2 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
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Returnable |