Philosophy and the Belief in a Life after Death [Hardcover]

This book critically examines the case for and against the belief in personal survival of bodily death. It discusses key philosophical questions. How could a discarnate individual be identified as a person who was once alive? What is the relationship between minds and their brains? Is a 'next world' conceivable? The book also examines classic arguments for the immortality of the soul, and focuses on types of prima facie evidence of survival: near-death experiences, apparitions, mediumistic communications, and ostensible reincarnation cases.Philosophy, Belief, and Disbelief - Problems of Post-Mortem Identity -The Mental and the Physical - General Arguments for the Immortality of the Soul - The Evidence from Psychical Research - The Concept of an Afterlife - Notes and References - IndexR.W.K.PATERSON