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Soul, Body, and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Soul, Body, and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons
Paperback. Editor(s): Corcoran, Kevin J. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
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 ... Read more
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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801486845
SKU
V9780801486845
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About Roger Hargreaves
Kevin Corcoran is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College.
Reviews for Soul, Body, and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons
This is an excellent collection of original articles with a very specific focus, namely western mind-body dualism and whether it is the view of survival contained in Christian scripture.... The book is well worth acquiring. There are many reasons to think that reductive materialism has completely failed in its efforts to get rid of subjectivity, qualia, free will, rationality and ... Read more