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Materialism, Minds, and Cartesian Dualism

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Materialism, Minds, and Cartesian Dualism offers a history of how philosophers and scientists have thought about mind/body problems, especially as it concerns the question of consciousness after death. This book interrogates the last thirty years of scientific research on reincarnation, considering a series of case studies impossible to explain in any other way than persisting consciousness after death. Although this book does not attempt to argue why or how some people reincarnate and how long they reincarnate. It argues that these case studies demonstrate in compelling ways that some people have indeed to some degree reincarnated. Therefore the philosophical materialist position that only physical objects exist is refuted.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Basic Objections to Mind-Body Dualism Advanced by Reductive Materialists

Chapter 2:. Evidence Favoring Cartesian Mind-Body Dualism and Reincarnation

Chapter 3: Objections and Replies to the Minimalist View of Personal Reincarnation

Chapter 4: Where are We Now?

Appendix. J. Ayer on Personal Reincarnation

References

Additional Suggested Reading

About the Author

Robert Almeder was professor of philosophy at Georgia State University until his retirement in 2005. He is the former editor of The American Philosophical Quarterly and has served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals.

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