A critical examination of the belief in a life after death.

by: Curt John Ducasse

Publication date: 1961

Usage: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Topics: Afterlife, paranormal

Collection: claremontschooloftheology; additional_collections

Language: English

Pt. 1. Immortality, religion, and science. Belief and disbelief in a life after death -- Religion and the belief in a life after death -- Pt. 2. The key concepts. What is "material"; and what is "living" -- What is "mental" -- What is "a mind" -- Pt. 3. The relation between mind and body. What would establish the possibility of survival -- Mind conceived as bodily processes; matter conceived -- Two versions of psycho-physical parallelism -- Mind as "the halo over the saint" -- Hypophenomenalism : the life of organisms as product of mind -- Mind and body as acting each on the other -- Lamont's attack on mind-body dualism -- Pt. 4. Discarnate life after death and the ostensibly relevant empirical evidence for it. Various senses of the question regarding survival after death -- Survival and paranormal occurrences -- Paranormal occurrences, science, and scientists -- Instances of occurrences prima facie indicative of survival -- Additional occurrences relevant to the question of survival -- How stands the case for the reality of survival -- Pt. 5. Life after death conceived as reincarnation. The doctrine of reincarnation in the history of thought -- Difficulties in the reincarnation of hypothesis -- Incompetent kinds of evidence for and against reincarnation -- Verifications of ostensible memories of earlier lives -- Regressions to the past through hypnosis -- The case of "The search for Bridey Murphy" -- How stands the case for the reality of survival as reincarnation.

Springfield, Ill., Thomas [1961]