Theo Todman's Web Page - Paper Abstracts

Author’s Abstract

1. It is not easy to be a materialist and yet believe that there is a way for human beings to survive death.
2. Peter van Inwagen identifies the central obstacle the materialist faces: Namely, the need to posit appropriate “immanent-causal” connections between my body as it is at death and some living body elsewhere or elsewhen.
3. I offer a proposal, consistent with van Inwagen’s own materialist metaphysics, for making materialism compatible with the possibility of survival.