
Hardcover: 708 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (March 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810886774
ISBN-13: 978-0810886773
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (March 12, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0810886774
ISBN-13: 978-0810886773
Authors
“In The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, Michael Martin and Keith Augustine collect a series of contributions that redress this imbalance in the literature by providing a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife.”
“Fully interdisciplinary, The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death brings together a variety of fields of research to make that case, including cognitive neuroscience, philosophy of mind, personal identity, philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, psychical research, and anomalistic psychology. As the definitive casebook of arguments against life after death, this collection is required reading for any instructor, researcher, and student of philosophy, religious studies, or theology. It is sure to raise provocative issues new to readers, regardless of background, from those who believe fervently in the reality of an afterlife to those who do not or are undecided on the matter.”
- Carlos J. Alvarez
- Leonard Angel
- Keith Augustine
- Sonya Bahar
- Christian Battista
- Susan Blackmore
- Raymond D. Bradley
- Theodore M. Drange
- Yonatan I. Fishman
- Rocco J. Gennaro
- Nicolas Gauvrit
- Terence Hines
- Jamie Horder
- James Houran
- Jaegwon Kim
- Rense Lange
- Claus Flodin Larsen
- Etielle Lebel
- David Lester
- Michael Martin
- Matt McCormick
- Jean Mercer
- Eric T. Olson
- David Papineau
- Gualtiero Piccini
- Champe Ransom
- Ingrid Hansen Smythe
- David L. Wilson
- David Weisman

“Its rigor, relentless argumentation, and careful attention to the evidence and possible objections make it a major and unique contribution to a topic long neglected by scientists. Its main virtue, in fact, is simply to take the idea of the afterlife and its consequences seriously, and see where this leads.”
Sebastian Dieguez
Cognitive neuroscientist, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Skeptic Magazine

Paul Taylor
The Skeptic Magazine (UK)

C.M. Lorkowski
Metapsychology Online Reviews

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“The present volume, then, is a great resource for anyone interested in one of the greatest question humanity has ever asked: is death truly the end? Its chapters make a convincing case against the survival hypothesis.”
Dr. Gabriel Andrade