Soul, Body, and Survival : : Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons /

Soul, Body, and Survival : : Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons / / 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 h...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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