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

Title
  1. A critical examination of the belief in a life after death.
Published by
  1. Springfield, Ill., Thomas [1961]
Author
  1. Ducasse, Curt John, 1881-1969.

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Description
  1. 318 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. The question of the possibility, reality, or impossibility of survival of the human personality after the body's death is approached without prior tacit commitment either pro or con.
Series statement
  1. American lecture series ; 423
Uniform title
  1. American lecture series ; 423.
Subject
  1. Immortality (Philosophy)
  2. Reincarnation
  3. Mind and body
  4. Immortality
  5. reincarnation
  6. Immortality
  7. Mind and body
  8. Reincarnation
  9. Jenseits
  10. Seelenwanderung
  11. Wiedergeburt
  12. Hiernamaals
  13. Lichaam en geest
  14. Buitenzintuiglijke waarneming
  15. Immortalité
  16. Réincarnation
  17. Esprit et corps
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliography.