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A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem SurvivalIntroduction: The Classical Empirical Survival Debate

A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem Survival: Introduction: The... [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 examination of certain arguments that have been proposed in favor of postmortem survival during the past century, what the twentieth-century Cambridge philosopher C.D. Broad called “empirical arguments for survival” (1960: 514–51). These arguments aim to infer survival from various ostensible features of the empirical world, the publicly observable world known through sense experience.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Philosophical Critique of Empirical Arguments for Postmortem SurvivalIntroduction: The Classical Empirical Survival Debate

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-349-55255-9
Pages
1 –23
DOI
10.1057/9781137440945_1
Publisher site
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Abstract

[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 examination of certain arguments that have been proposed in favor of postmortem survival during the past century, what the twentieth-century Cambridge philosopher C.D. Broad called “empirical arguments for survival” (1960: 514–51). These arguments aim to infer survival from various ostensible features of the empirical world, the publicly observable world known through sense experience.]

Published: Dec 21, 2015

Keywords: Prior Probability; Survival Hypothesis; Classical Argument; Empirical Argument; Philosophical Critique

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