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A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival

Part of the Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137440945

ISBN: 978-1-349-55255-9

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 21, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Introduction: The Classical Empirical Survival Debate

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 1 –23

[This book is a philosophical exploration of postmortem survival. In the broad sense, “postmortem survival” refers to the continued existence of the self or some significant aspect of our mental life or psychology after biological death. More precisely stated, this book is a philosophical...
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Exploring the Hypothesis of Personal Survival

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 24 –46

[In the exploration of alleged evidence for survival, we are immediately confronted with a fundamental conceptual issue. What is the meaning of the survival hypothesis? What exactly is being affirmed (and denied) by this hypothesis? The generic idea of survival or life after death may be...
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Out-of-Body and Near-Death Experiences

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 47 –71

[In the present chapter, I begin a three-chapter exploration of phenomena allegedly suggestive of survival and that provide data on which classical empirical arguments for survival are based. In these chapters, I focus primarily on strands of data that empirical survivalists claim support or are...
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Mediumistic Communications

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 72 –104

[While out-of-body experiences (OBEs) and near-death experiences (NDEs) seem to provide data that support an account of consciousness that is amiable to the prospects of survival, more salient phenomena suggestive of survival would come in the form of indications that the consciousness of some...
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Cases of the Reincarnation Type

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 105 –133

[A third line of ostensible evidence for life after death derives from data apparently suggestive of reincarnation, the re-embodiment on earth of some formerly living person. The data consist of living persons claiming alleged past-life memories as a particular formerly living person (hereinafter...
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Classical Explanatory Arguments for Survival

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 134 –159

[In Chapter 3 through Chapter 5 I have surveyed the phenomena of out-of-body and near-death experiences, mediumship, and cases of the reincarnation type (CORTs). Now that I have delineated the relevant data from these phenomena, I begin the exploration of arguments that have been proposed for...
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Bayesian Explanatory Arguments

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 160 –187

[The exploration in Chapter 6 focused on the explanatory nature of classical empirical arguments for survival. While I was mainly interested in outlining the structure of such arguments, and suggesting how they might be formalized as likelihood arguments, I concluded that explanatory arguments...
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Bayesian Defenses of the Survival Hypothesis

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 188 –213

[In the prior chapter, I explored two foundational Bayesian analyses of the empirical case for survival based largely on the data of mediumship. Broad and Dodds each argued that the posterior probability of the hypothesis of personal survival relative to this evidence is not greater than ½. In...
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The Problem of Auxiliary Assumptions

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 214 –245

[Empirical arguments for survival purport to justify the claim that there is evidence that supports the hypothesis of survival. In Chapter 3 through Chapter 5, I surveyed some of the widely discussed forms of such evidence: evidence from out-of-body and near-death experiences (EOBE), mediumistic...
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Exotic Counter-Explanations

Sudduth, Michael

Pages: 246 –280

[In Chapter 7 and Chapter 8, we saw that in Bayesian arguments for survival, the posterior probability of the survival hypothesis, Pr(S | E & K), depends on the prior probability of the survival hypothesis, Pr(S | K), and the explanatory power of the survival hypothesis, Pr(E | S & K)/Pr(E | K).1...

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