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Tables of Contents for Immortality
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
72
Plato
1. The Release of the Soul from the Chains of the Body
73
10
Lucretius
2. The Mind and the Spirit Will Die
83
5
Tertullian
3. The Refutation of the Pythagorean Doctrine of Transmigration
88
3
St. Thomas Aquinas
4. The Resurrection of Man
91
9
Rene Descartes
5. The Incorporeal Soul and Its Body
100
9
John Locke
6. Personal Identity, Consciousness and the Immaterial Substance
109
12
Joseph Butler
7. Of a Future Life
121
9
David Hume
8. Of Personal Identity
130
4
David Hume
9. Of the Immortality of the Soul
134
7
Voltaire
10. The Soul, Identity and Immortality
141
7
Thomas Reid
11. Of the Nature and Origin of Our Notion of Personal Identity
148
7
Immanuel Kant
12. Refutation of Mendelssohn's Proof of the Permanence of the Soul
155
2
Joseph Priestley
13. Materialism, Personal Identity and Life
157
15
John Stuart Mill
14. Immortality
172
5
William James
15. The Theory of the Soul
177
7
Hugh Elliot
16. Tantalus
184
2
John Foster
17. The Objections to Epiphenomenalism
186
2
Raynor Johnson
18. Preexistence, Reincarnation and Karma
188
6
C. J. Ducasse
19. Survival As Transmigration
194
6
Paul Edwards
20. Karmic Tribulations
200
13
H. H. Price
21. What Kind of Next World?
213
7
Antony Flew
22. The Cartesian Assumption
220
5
Peter Geach
23. Immortality
225
10
John Hick
24. The Recreation of the Psycho-Physical Person
235
7
Peter van Inwagen
25. The Possibility of Resurrection
242
5
Donald MacKay
26. Computer Software and Life After Death
247
3
Paul
Linda Badham
27. The Evidence from Psychical Research
250
9
John Beloff
28. Is There Anything Beyond Death? A Parapsychologist's Summation
259
10
A. J. Ayer
29. What I Saw When I Was Dead
269
7
C. D. Broad
30. On Survival without a Body
276
3
John Hospers
31. Is the Notion of Disembodied Existence Intelligible?
279
3
William James
32. Consciousness, the Brain and Immortality
282
10
Paul Edwards
33. The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain
292
16
Derek Parfit
34. Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons
308
8
Bibliographical Essay
316