Soul, Body, and Survival : : Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons / / ed. by Kevin Corcoran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Baker, Lynne,; Cooper, John,; Corcoran, Kevin,; Davis, Stephen T.,; Foster, John,; Goetz, Stewart,; Hasker, William,; Kim, Jaegwon,; Leftow, Brian,; Lowe, E. J.,; Merricks, Trenton,; O'Connor, Timothy,; Olson, Eric T.,; Taliaferro, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Corcoran, Kevin,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Soul or Body? --; PART I. Cartesian Dualism --; A Brief Defense of the Cartesian View --; Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism --; Causality, Mind, and Free Will --; Emergentism and Consciousness: Going beyond Property Dualism --; A Compound of Two Substances --; Modal Dualism: A Critique --; PART II. Alternatives to Cartesian Dualism --; Persons as Emergent Substances --; Souls Dipped in Dust --; Identity, Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self --; Materialism with a Homan Face --; PART III. Does Life after Death Require Dualism? --; How to Live Forever without Saving Your Soul --; Physical Persons and Postmortem Survival without Temporal Gaps --; Biblical Anthropology and the Body-Soul Problem --; Physicalism and Resurrection --; Contributors --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501723520; 9783110536157
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501723520
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Kevin Corcoran.

How are soul and body related to one another? Are human beings immaterial souls, or complex physical organisms? Will we survive the death of our bodies? Does only the dualist view allow the possibility of life after death? This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the metaphysics of human nature and the possibility of post-mortem survival.Kevin Corcoran's collection, Soul, Body, and Survival, includes chapters from those who embrace traditional soul-body dualism, those who assert person-body identity, and those who propose entirely new views that fall outside the categories of monism and dualism. The first book to connect the metaphysics of persons with the belief in life after death, thus intersecting with theological as well as philosophical inquiry, it blurs the divide between metaphysics and the philosophy of mind.