Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival

Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival

Sudduth, Michael

Palgrave Macmillan

10/2015

336

Dura

Inglês

9781137440938

15 a 20 dias

Sudduth provides a critical exploration of classical empirical arguments for survival arguments that purport to show that data collected from ostensibly paranormal phenomena constitute good evidence for the survival of the self after death. Utilizing the conceptual tools of formal epistemology, he argues that classical arguments are unsuccessful.
1 Introduction: The Classical Empirical Survival Debate 2 Exploring the Hypothesis of Personal Survival 3 Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences 4 Mediumistic Communications 5 Cases of the Reincarnation Type 6 Classical Explanatory Arguments for Survival 7 Bayesian Explanatory Arguments 8 Bayesian Defenses of the Survival Hypothesis 9 The Problem of Auxiliary Assumptions 10 Exotic Counter-Explanations 11 Conclusion: The Classical Arguments Defeated
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