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The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death
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The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death Hardcover - 2015

by Michael Martin; Keith Augustine


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In TheMyth 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.

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  • Title The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death
  • Author Michael Martin; Keith Augustine
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 708
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Date 2015-03-12
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780810886773 / 0810886774
  • Weight 2.6 lbs (1.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.71 x 2.14 in (23.11 x 17.04 x 5.44 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Religious
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Future life
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014039697
  • Dewey Decimal Code 129

About the author

Michael Martin is professor of philosophy emeritus at Boston University. In addition to more than 150 articles and reviews, he is the author or editor of several books, including The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, Atheism, Morality, and Meaning, and Atheism: A Philosophical Justification. Keith Augustine is executive director and scholarly paper editor of Internet Infidels (infidels.org), which hosts the popular SecularWeb. He is well known as a skeptic on the question of survival after death. He has published in Skeptic magazine and his work has been the object of discussion in multiple issues of the Journal of Near-Death Studies.
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