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Informationen zum Autor Robert Francis Almeder has published twenty-five books and over one hundred articles. He is currently the Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Studies specializing in Philosophy of Science and Epistemology. He was the Inaugural McCullough Distinguished Professor in Ethics and Political Philosophy, a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, and the Editor of The American Philosophical Quarterly for five years. Klappentext The book takes well-established, scientific evidence on consciousness to interrogate, and re envisions questions of personal reincarnation and thus of the mind/body problem. Methodologically, the basis of the book is rooted in the careful argumentation and logical appraisal of classical materialism and the history of the mind-body problem. Zusammenfassung The book takes well-established, scientific evidence on consciousness to interrogate, and re envisions questions of personal reincarnation and thus of the mind/body problem. Methodologically, the basis of the book is rooted in the careful argumentation and logical appraisal of classical materialism and the history of the mind-body problem. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
