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The myth of an afterlife : the case against life after death / edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine.

Contributor(s): Martin, Michael, 1932-2015 [editor.] | Augustine, Keith [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xxxi, 675 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780810886773; 0810886774Subject(s): Future lifeDDC classification: 129 LOC classification: BL535 | .M98 2015Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
On the origin of afterlife beliefs by means of memetic selection / Steve Stewart-Williams -- Introduction / Keith Augustine -- 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 -- 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 -- There 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 -- 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 -- 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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- There 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.

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