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Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)
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Abstract
- If mind-body substance dualism is false, and we are identical to human animals, then the only possibility for post-mortem existence is some form of bodily resurrection.
- Since the body is destroyed at death, it would seem that any resurrected individual could only be a copy of the original. It might think of itself as the resurrected pre-mortem individual, but it would be wrong.
- Consideration of arguments by Peter Van Inwagen in this respect.
- This chapter is likely to be controversial, so needs to be very carefully argued, and factually correct concerning what is actually believed by intellectually-aware Christians and Muslims (unlike what seems to be the case with most swipes against religion).
- It also needs to cover other putative forms of post-mortem survival: I’m considering changing the title to “Life After Death”.
Research Methodology
- Follow this Link1 for a generic statement of how I intend to pursue each Chapter.
- The method is broken down into 16, possibly iterative, stages, some of which have sub-stages.
- Follow this Link2 for my progress dashboard on these tasks.
Chapter Introduction3
- While I wish in this chapter seriously to consider the religious hope of Resurrection, I do not want to get side-tracked onto matters of Scriptural exegesis, or into evidential matters of whether particular resurrections – specifically of Jesus – happened or not. In this regard, I’m interested only in what believers in resurrection take it to be, and whether they provide any detailed metaphysical account of how it is supposed to work.
- As in the chapter on Thought Experiments, this chapter is partly aimed at checking how (my version of) Animalism copes with the projected situations. As such, I may extend this to other posited versions of post-mortem survival, though most are ruled out by the essentially physical nature of the human person as proposed by Animalism.
- While not wanting to get too far off topic, especially at the end of the thesis, I want to consider some of the ethical consequences of adopting Animalism with – as I have argued – the lack of hope of post-mortem existence. The topic of “Death and Ethics” is already a bit tangential to my thesis, but there’s a set of questions in which I have an interest and on which I wonder whether my views on Personal Identity have anything to say. These two are the most important:-
- Why is death bad (for the deceased)?, and
- Can the dead be harmed (assuming they no longer exist)?
- So, we start off with a discussion of Death4, which – like Life (discussed in Chapter 6 – I take to be a biological event (or rather a Process). We touched on Brain Death in Chapter 2. Despite its pragmatic utility (which I suspect is the main motivator for accepting it as a criterion of Death) this idea is rather confused on any Biological View of What We Are.
- I will also discuss certain occasional events on the periphery of Death, namely Near Death Experiences5 and Out of Body Experiences6. Do these events have anything to say about “where we’re going”, in the first case, or what we are, in the second?
- Getting closer to Death, I need to discuss Persistent Vegetative States7. From an Animalist perspective, such persons are not dead – any more than the Brain-dead are Dead – but whether they should be kept alive is (I would claim) primarily a pragmatic issue to do with the use of resources, coupled with consideration of what life is like – if there is anything – for those in such a state.
- Then we get to the meat of the Chapter – discussion of Life after Death8. What is it supposed to involve, where is it enjoyed, and how do we get there? Clearly, there are many options. The question is are any of them possible – and, better – actual?
- The two options I consider are Resurrection9 and Reincarnation10. In both cases, the big question is what makes it the case that the individual Resurrected or Reincarnated the same individual as the one who died. I suspect ‘nothing’ in the absence of a Soul, though much argumentation is required to reach this conclusion in the face of objections and various suggestions for possible mechanisms.
- We discussed Uploading to a Computer as a (bare) possibility for Life after Death in the Previous Chapter.
- In this regard, we need to discuss the possible interim states between Death and putative post-mortem survival. I need to discuss Corpses11, which – in some of the easiest cases – are (supposed to be) the mediators of continuity of identity between Death and Resurrection. Corpses also cause philosophical worries – on many physicalist accounts of Personal Identity – about where they “come from” and whether “we” end up as Corpses.
- We need to discuss the possibility of Disembodied Existence12 (which I imagine is the Interregnum13 for Reincarnation) together with a reconsideration of Intermittent Objects discussed in Chapter 5.
- Finally, we need to reflect on the consequences of Life after Death, which is usually taken to be Immortality14 (though supporters of the ‘conditional immortality’ position in Christianity have Resurrection followed by destruction for those found unworthy of eternal life.
- Before doing so, I will reflect on the supposed difficulty – displayed by Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilych15 of accepting the inevitability of our own deaths.
- But, is Immortality really something to be desired? Reflection on the Makropulos Case16 suggests that an infinite life would be unbearably tedious, even though at each possible terminus we might want to live on.
Note Hierarchy
- Death17
- Near Death Experiences18
- Out of Body Experiences19
- Persistent Vegetative State20
- Life After Death21
- Resurrection22
- Reincarnation23
- Interim States
- Corpses24
- Disembodied Existence25
- Interregnum26
- Immortality27
- Ivan Ilych28
- Makropulos Case29
Main Text
- Death30
- Death is important to our study because we’re considering our persistence conditions31, whether we consider ourselves to be
- Human Persons32.
- Human Animals33 (members of the species homo sapiens34), or
- Human Beings35
and death would seem to be the terminus of such existence36.
- That this is so has often been resisted, which is why we must consider such matters as:-
- Resurrection37,
- Reincarnation38, and
- Disembodied Existence39.
- Death should be considered a biological event, or maybe – better – a process40. It is the termination of life41, which is also a biological process, though usually a longer one.
- Other forms of – and terminations of – existence42 may be termed “life” or “death”, but these are metaphorical expressions used by analogy with biological life or death. So, is the resurrection43 life – if there is one – really “life” or a continued and enhanced form of existence44? Also, is the “second death” really “death”? I suppose we would allow alternative metabolisms to count as “life45”, so that an Android46 that maintained itself might be said to be “alive”; and, consequently, the destruction of such a being might be classified as “death”.
- A particular case of the above is Brain Death47. It’s a large question for Animalists48 – and for holders of the Psychological View49 – whether Brain50 Death is really death, or whether it is (for holders of the PV51) the death (or end) of the Person52.
- As a spin-off from the (alleged) Corpse Problem53 for animalism54, we need to discuss the process55 of dying – the transition from life56 to death. Just when does death occur (for human animals57)? No doubt there is a degree of vagueness58 here (though ascribing ‘vagueness’ to such a ‘terminal’ event as death seems counter-intuitive).
→ See "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", p. 81 for this objection to animalism59.
- Consideration of whether we should fear death, or the process60 of dying, is probably beyond the bounds of this Thesis. However, for a comforting account of the normal process of dying in old age, see this “short” from the BBC: BBC: Dying is not as bad as you think. The author – a medical doctor (Kathryn Mannix – see With the End In Mind) – talks about the “good death” and the process of dying in your bed being not so scary. The dying drift in and out of consciousness61, and return from unconsciousness feeling much as after a refreshing sleep, so we know the coma doesn’t feel frightening and isn’t noticed when it happens. The “death rattle” shows just how relaxed you were. Normal dying is a really gentle process.
- Would that were the way for all, rather than as the result of a rather painful trauma62 when you’re not ready to go.
- Near Death Experiences63
- NDEs, if they are experiences of anything veridical:-
- Offer a serious challenge to those who deny the possibility or actuality of life after death64,
- Appear to offer support for non-physicalist accounts of the mind and
- Cause problems for animalists65 by lending support to alternative accounts of what we are66 – maybe souls67.
- Most of the phenomena – which I need to document and comment on (see "Wikipedia - Near-death experience") – can probably be explained by the usual “dying brain” / anoxia / endorphins suggestions, though this can be rather facile – partly because not all NDEs are had by those near death68, but also because the dying brain69 might not be up to the job of having (and remembering70) scenes of such alleged clarity. However, see "Jarrett (Christian) - Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences", which reports on a study that makes a detailed connection between the experiences of Ketamine (and LSD) users and NDE-reports.
- I have my doubts about when such experiences actually occur – but the suggestion that they occur when the experiencer is “coming round” doesn’t seem to be popular.
- A difficult situation to “explain away” is where the NDE-experiencer claims to see something (while having an Out of Body Experience71) they could not have seen under normal circumstances.
- Further “awkward” cases to dispose of are where experiences analogous to the NDE are had by / shared with friends / relatives of the dying. I presume these accounts should be rejected out of hand, along with all other incredible reports of exotic parapsychological phenomena. The Fenwicks give a sympathetic hearing to (the then) recent results of parapsychological research – but in an undocumented way, and showing unawareness that the claims are of slight (though allegedly statistically significant) deviations from chance, not of the exotic phenomena exhibited in the accounts of NDEs. See "Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences", which also rejects the “shoe” case, but for different reasons to that on the Infidels site: See OBEs72.
- Out of Body Experiences73
- As is the case with Near Death Experiences74, which sometimes include them, OBEs offer various challenges to physicalist75 accounts of the mind76, and to animalist77 accounts of what we are78.
- OBEs may or may not be a concomitant of an NDE. They seem sometimes to occur during other crisis times of illness.
- An example – see "BBC, Burgess (Gary) - Why do we know so little about ME?" – was given in March 2018 by a reporter suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). He stated quite casually, without any self-consciousness about the prima facie absurdity of his account – “In the middle of a piece about maternity and paternity benefits, during the 6pm news programme, I had the most wonderful sensation. I left my body, was suddenly up in the studio ceiling, and was looking down on myself, the presenters, and all of the camera crew. I was having an out-of-body experience.”
- The question is – of course – whether these experiences are of anything outside the mind79. Do they really prove that something like a soul80 can wander out of the body81?
- A difficult situation to “explain away” is where the NDE-experiencer claims – as in the example above – to see something (while having an Out of Body Experience) they could not have seen under normal circumstances. The difficulty with evaluating such reports is that they are either vague and unsurprising, or anecdotal and hard to verify – so the presumption is that they aren’t veridical.
- There’s a famous “shoe” case where no follow-up seems to have been possible. There’s a (naturally sceptical) page on Infidels.org ("Augustine (Keith) - Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences") which references this “shoe” case amongst others.
- The case of our reporter is surprisingly off-hand for such a surprising claim. "Blackmore (Susan) - Beyond the Body" asserts that 10% of people claim to have had OBEs. Maybe most also believe in immaterial souls82, and think that most other people do likewise. So, they may claim more than they strictly observed as a way of making their experience seem more important than those of rival accounts. Rather than thinking they are distorting the evidence-base for this phenomenon, they may simply take it as a fact, and want to share in the glamour associated with having experienced it. Much like alien abduction.
- Persistent Vegetative State83
- For information on what a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) actually is, see for example "Wikipedia - Persistent vegetative state". Note that the Wikipedia article uses the PVS acronym to stand for a Permanent Vegetative State.
- It’s never clear whether any such state is permanent, whereas it is clear that it is persistent. In the UK, the state becomes legally “permanent” after 12 months, and the term “continuous” is used in preference to “persistent”.
- The medical definition is given there as “A wakeful unconscious state that lasts longer than a few weeks”. Despite the (occasional) wakefulness, there is a “complete lack of cognitive function”.
- The interest in the Persistent Vegetative State within the topic of Personal Identity is that when in a PVS the attributes of personhood84 are not in evidence – and maybe not capable of being evidenced – so that it is possible to argue that the individual85 in the PVS is no longer a person86. It thus provides the opportunity to pull apart such prima facie co-referential terms as Human Person87 and Human Being88 (or Human Animal89).
- One may wonder why PVS is used in philosophical Thought experiments90 rather than Coma (a more severe condition). I suppose the issue is that in a PVS the brain-stem91 is substantially intact (whatever other brain-damage has been incurred), so that no life-support is required other than feeding tubes. In irreversible comas, the brain-stem may be so severely damaged that the basic functions of the organism92 cannot be carried on without life93 support. Consequently, there’s no debate whether those in a PVS are animals94, whereas it might be argued that those on life support in an irreversible coma are not. Hence, while the PVS definitely distinguishes human animals95 from human persons96 (according to most definitions), irreversible coma might not.
- I had originally put “vegetative functions” (rather than simply “functions”) above, but I’m unconvinced that any activity above cellular level ought to be classed as “vegetative”; but I think the Aristotelian classification is often adopted, where “animal” functions are those involving locomotion and the like, rather than nutrition, respiration, etc.
- Life After Death97
- Here we must discuss possible ways in which post-mortem98 survival99 might be actualised, namely:-
- Resurrection100,
- Reincarnation101, or
- Immortality102 of the Soul103.
- To this list might be added the collection of hopeful possibilities expected by the Transhumanists104.
- We will discuss here broad issues rather than the specifics of the particular options.
- We need to discuss whether life105 after death106 – in the sense of eternal, or at least unending, life – is to be desired, though this can mostly be hived off to the Makropulos Case107.
- I’m not interested in cases of resuscitation, which are commonplace these days. The paradigm cases I’m interested in are after the total – or near-total – destruction of the body108.
- Resuscitation is probably best dealt with under the head of Near Death Experiences109, but see
- "Moody (Raymond A.) - Life After Life", and
- "Moody (Raymond A.) - The Light Beyond".
- Mark Johnston thinks (in "Johnston (Mark) - Surviving Death") that there’s a forensic110 need for post-mortem survival111 of some sort, as otherwise there’s no incentive to be good, and hopes to provide it by a radical redefinition of what the person112 is. But this strikes me as changing the subject.
- "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death" is a comprehensive sceptical attack on the possibility of post mortem survival.
- Resurrection113
- Belief in a resurrection to paradise has occasionally pernicious effects and is also important to millions of non-explosive Americans. Consequently, the metaphysical114 possibility115 of the resurrection of beings like us116 is very important.
- This Thesis will aim to prove that resurrection requires substance dualism117.
- I will need to ensure I understand just what is believed by intellectually-respectable Jews, Christians and Muslims (though the topical believers are not amongst the ranks of the intellectually-respectable).
- Some discussion will be had about the orthodox Christian view being that there is no continuity of matter118 (the conundrum about the person consumed by cannibals was early recognised), and that the resurrection body119 is said to be in some sense a “spiritual” body.
- A good place to start for an understanding of what resurrection meant to Christians prior to the modern era is "Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336".
- The best place to start evaluating contemporary Christian philosophical views on the metaphysical possibility of resurrection is "Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?".
- One thing that strikes me is that the resurrection of Christ, taken to be the guarantee of our own resurrection, is no such thing in the sense of “showing it can be done”. The physical120 and metaphysical issues in resurrecting Jesus (or Lazarus, or Jairus’s daughter, or any recently-deceased121 person whose body122 is substantially intact) are much less than in the case of those whose bodies have been destroyed. Indeed, it might one day be possible123 to resurrect the recently-deceased124 by way of microscopic repair; at least this seems conceivable, whereas the resurrection of a human being whose body has become dispersed and whose parts have been recycled doesn’t even seem to make sense (on a materialist125 account of what we human persons126 are).
- Reincarnation127
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Rebirth" makes a case for the metaphysical coherence of the traditional Indian account of rebirth – preferring the term “Rebirth” to “Reincarnation” because Buddhists deny the existence of an eternal Soul128, which may be presupposed by the concept of Reincarnation.
- My intuition129 is that – as well as doubts about its actual occurrence – Reincarnation suffers from even more philosophical problems from the perspective of personal identity than does resurrection itself.
- However, I’m substantially ignorant of the detailed philosophy and theology underpinning these ideas, though have read the rebuttal "Edwards (Paul) - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination".
- Interim States
- Corpses130
- The “Corpse Problem”
- Corpses are troublesome131 for animalism132, which alleges (correctly in my view) that corpses are not animals133.
- The claim is that, at death134, something ontologically135 new comes on the scene – because a corpse has different persistence136 conditions137 (those of masses of matter138) to those of organisms139.
- Some philosophers – eg. Fred Feldman, in "Feldman (Fred) - The Survival of Death" – disagree. Feldman claims that we survive140 death141, but – rather disappointingly – as a corpse, which solves the “corpse problem”, but at the cost – most likely – of saying that we are bodies142 rather than organisms143.
- The problem if we don’t survive death as our corpses – it is said – is to answer the question where the corpse comes from, and to answer the objection that if it was there all along – as a “corpse-to-be” – then we have a situation where we have two things of different sorts144 in the same place145 at the same time.
- If this is taken seriously, then it can be used against the form of the animalism’s “too many thinkers146” argument.
- I’m willing to accept that this “thinking animal” argument is unsound. However, just how the analogy would work for the “corpse-to-be” needs to be spelled out. The corpse has the persistence conditions147 of a mass of matter148. What are the persistence conditions149 of the “corpse-to-be”? If they are those of an organism150, then then the corpse-to-be cannot be the same individual151 as the corpse, though the Constitution View152 might be happy with this situation.
- Resurrection
- Corpses are probably also important for most Christian materialists153 who hope for some form of resurrection154.
- If there is a corpse to be resurrected155, it is easier to see how identity is preserved than if we have total destruction. This is obviously so in the case of resuscitation, but even where we have a real case of death156 – not just clinical death, or brain death157, but real death with a bit of mouldering – there is some physical thing that is responsible for preserving identity.
- Disembodied Existence158
- As an Animalist159, I don’t hold out much hope for disembodied existence for such beings as ourselves160.
- It is true that most people, most of the time, seem to have thought it possible – or even certain. Presumably it is closely related to the view that we are – or at least have – immortal161 souls162 that survive the death163 of our bodies164. Maybe there are alternative “possibilities” to explain the origins of the belief. But there are worries whether disembodied existence is even coherent for concrete particulars.
- Note that “disembodied” is sometimes used for “disembodied brains”. Since the brain165 is part of the body166, I cover such possibilities under Brains In Vats167.
- There is some overlap between this topic and at least one topic in Transhumanism168. The idea behind Uploading169 seems to be that we are “patterns in information170 space” (Andy Clark) and these “patterns” could – in principle – be uploaded171 to a computer172. The entities resulting from such uploads would appear to be disembodied, at least if their experience (assuming that they are conscious173) is of having simulated bodies174 they don’t really have, as in The Matrix. But, all this illusion aside, are these minds175 actually disembodied, or are their “bodies176” (parts of) the computer177 that “runs” them?
- Interregnum178
- This is a term of art for the (supposed) period between death179 and reincarnation180, of which this is a sub-topic. I think the term is due to Paul Edwards.
- The problem with this period – whatever it is called – is that it may seem to imply intermittent existence181.
- Alternatively, it has to rely on some alternative substrate for the existence182 of which there is little or no evidence.
- The obvious candidate is a substantial soul183. However, it seems that orthodox Hinduism thinks of a rather tenuous “astral body” as providing the link.
- That said, the same issue arises for any post-mortem survival184 that is alleged to follow the total destruction of the body185. At least reincarnation186 has some tenuous evidence in its favour, whereas there are – as far as I’m aware – no claimed occurrences of the resurrection187 of a totally-destroyed body188.
- I suppose that theists might claim that the information189 that constitutes190 a person191 is held in the mind of God during the interregnum.
- Immortality192
- In the Biblical Christian tradition, God is the only being with natural immortality (see 1 Timothy 6:16 “God … who alone is immortal”, NIV), but Plato (and his Platonising Christian followers) had it that the (human) soul193 is also naturally immortal. The Biblical view – at least on some interpretations – is rather that God gives or denies immortality to whoever he wishes (and there is consequently no need to eternally roast the immortal souls of the wicked).
- St. Paul has it that “the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality” (1 Corinthians 15:53, NIV). This is in the context of the resurrection194 of the just dead195 (or the metamorphosis196 of the just living) at the return of Christ.
- In the context of identity theory, it is doubtful whether the very same thing can at one time be perishable and at another time immortal, because a thing’s persistence conditions197 are taken to be essential198 properties199 of the sort200 it is, and a single thing cannot change sort201,202.
- As such, (as "Johnston (Mark) - Surviving Death" notes), natural immortality of the soul203 is the only hope for post-mortem survival204. But this hope is itself dashed by the lack of empirical evidence for the existence of the substantial205 soul206, immortal or otherwise.
- It does seem incongruous to talk about post-mortem immortality – how can something that has died be immortal? The idea, no doubt, is that it is the body207 that the soul208 occupied that was mortal. Hence, the soul209 needs a new immortal body210 to be clothed with. That seems to be the Pauline picture, though debated by the “Conditional Immortality” people.
- The Transhumanists211 hope that Uploading212 to a computer213 might lead to indefinitely extended life214, though this is hardly immortality. Indefinite identity-preserving life extensions might be possible using repair-microbots.
- In all this, I’m talking about the persistence of the individual215. I’m not talking about “immortality” in the sense of “undying fame”. As Woody Allen quipped (I’m not sure where this is from, but see Woody Allen: Immortality) – “I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment”.
- "Williams (Bernard) - The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality" argues that we wouldn’t even want immortality, but I’m not convinced. However, a bad immortality – uploading216 to an evil computer217, for instance – would be worse than no immortality, though some (eg. Miguel De Unamuno) are not even convinced of that. This topic is covered further under the Makropulos Case218.
- Of course, if animalism219 is the correct account of personal identity, immortality is not on offer, though if the transhumanists220 succeed, and an alternative account of personal identity is correct, an indefinite extension of life might be possible.
- Ivan Ilych221
- Tolstoy’s short novella "Tolstoy (Leo) - The Death of Ivan Ilyich" tends to feature in discussions on the philosophy of death222.
- I first came upon it via "Kagan (Shelly) - The nature of death (continued); Believing you will die". The contention in Kagan’s lecture was that Tolstoy’s novella taught that no-one really expects to die, an idea Kagan rejects.
- My own view is that this isn’t really what the novella is about, but is rather about how we should live our lives – or at least how we should not live them.
- In this Note, I intend to consider two main questions:-
- Does Tolstoy suggest that no-one really expects to die?
- What is the aim of the novella?
- As I’m not a literary critic, I’ll be somewhat briefer with regards to the second question than Tolstoy’s work deserves.
- The explicit passage on the expectation of death is where Ivan – on hearing that he is about to die – observes that the syllogism beginning “all men are mortal” applies to “all men”, but not specifically to him.
- Of course, no-one really believes they are immortal223 (or, at least, that they are not going to die) but the reality of personal death224 is pushed so far into the background that it is hardly taken into account in our plans (other than in the making of rather impersonal provisions), until it is just around the corner. Our plans always extend infinitely on, without the explicit acknowledgement until the last possible minute that we – and more urgently our faculties – will not continue on for ever, and that we need to eke out our time more carefully.
- No doubt this is especially true of the young, but I can vouch for the fact that it’s still true of at least one person aged 62225.
- Makropulos Case226
- This Note will investigate the controversy started in 1973 by "Williams (Bernard) - The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality".
- It is slightly off-topic, in that the focus isn’t on whether there is, in fact, any such thing as immortality227 (for human beings228).
- Rather, it is whether immortality – again for embodied human beings – would be desirable (or, indeed, tolerable).
- Williams’s conclusion – needless to say – is that it is not, though his reasoning is rather subtle.
- Thoughts on the value – or disvalue – of immortality229 tie in with the evil – or lack of evil – of death230. Some of the items in the reading list mention the Makropulos Case in that regard.
- All discussion of the evils of death231 will fall under this Note.
- Since animalism232 strongly implies that “death is the end of us”, this may be important.
Concluding Remarks
- Having now discussed everything on our Agenda, we now in our next Chapter233 make our conclusions.
- This is work in progress234.
Links to Books / Papers to be Addressed235
- This section attempts to derive the readings lists automatically from those of the underlying Notes, but removing duplicated references. The list is divided into:-
- I have segregated those works on the core topic of Resurrection that are from a religio-philosophical perspective from those that are pure philosophy. In general, those written by professional philosophers are in the latter section, even if addressed to a religious audience.
- The motivation for some of the works is as follows:-
- Gasser is the most important work I need to address.
- Wright’s big book (hopefully) supplies all there is from the Christian side – even though the focus is on a specific – and theologically and metaphysically special – resurrection.
- Bynum and Gillman provide background information from the Christian and Jewish perspectives, respectively.
- Badham is a rather elementary Christian discussion, and may be rejected.
- Corcoran is an important survey, already included in the reading for a couple of other Chapters.
- Edwards, Flew and Penelhum are useful surveys of older material, which is useful just to read for the appropriate background. There is some considerable overlap in the selections.
- I suppose I need to discuss death itself, hence Kagan, McMahan, Regan & Wyatt – though skipping the ethical bits.
- Perrett and Tippler may be a little off-centre, and I may reject them on closer inspection.
- The other individual papers – especially those by van Inwagen and Shoemaker – are probably important, but justification is to be supplied.
- Many aspects of these and other works will need to be either ignored or reserved for other chapters.
Works on this topic that I’ve actually read238, include the following:-
- Death
- Death239
- Aeon:
- "Aeon - Video - By the river", 2021, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - Crannog", 2019, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - In dog years", 2020, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - The animal that wouldn't die", 2015, External Link
- "Aeon - Video - What does dying really feel like?", 2022, External Link
- "Madison (Paige) - Who first buried the dead?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Monso (Susana) - What animals think of death", 2021, External Link
- "Pierre (Joseph) - Die like a dog", 2018, External Link
- "Stone (Alison) - Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death", 2019, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Telengut (Alisi) - Video - Tengri", 2022, External Link
- Badness of Death:
- "Burak (Jacob) - Is philanthropy driven by the human desire to cheat death?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Cushing (Simon) - Don’t Fear the Reaper: An Epicurean Answer to Puzzles About Death and Injustice", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Greenberg (Jeff) - This mortal coil", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Fear of death", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Other bad aspects of death, Part II", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I", 2007, External Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Why Is Death Bad?", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- "Strawson (Galen) - Why I Have No Future", 2007?, Write-Up Note240, Internal PDF Link
- Dead People:
- "Carter (William) - Will I Be a Dead Person?", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Mackie (David) - Personal Identity and Dead People", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Death & Ethics:
- "Kagan (Shelly) - How to live given the certainty of death", 2007, External Link
- Definition of Death:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Death", 2007, Book, Footnote241
- "Nagel (Thomas) - Death", 1979, Internal PDF Link
- Dying:
- "Dougary (Ginny) - A Very English Farewell", 2011, Annotations
- "Gawande (Atul) - Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End", 2015, Book
- "Ho (Anita) - No patient is an island", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Holloway (Richard) - Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death", 1988, Book
- "Lamb (David) - Diagnosing Death", 1978, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Levy (Neil) - Final thoughts", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olberding (Amy) - Is the death of an elder worse than the death of a young person?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Popkin (Gabriel) - What the death of an oak tree can teach us about mortality", 2016, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Talbot (Mary) - The good death", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Velleman (David) - Dying", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Ward (Warren) - Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us?", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Brandon (Ed) - Review of David Lund's 'Persons, Souls and Death'", 2009, External Link
- "Cushing (Simon) - Fred Feldman: Confrontations with the Reaper", 2006?, Internal PDF Link
- "Feldman (Fred) - Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death", 1992, Book
- "Feldman (Fred) - Introduction: Confronting the Reaper", 1992
- "Feldman (Fred) - The Termination Thesis", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Fischer (John Martin) - Death, Metaphysics, and Morality", 1993
- "Fischer (John Martin) & Speak (Daniel) - Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Gert (Bernard), Lizza (John), Youngner (Stuart) & Chiong (Winston) - Matters of 'Life' and 'Death'", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Death: Course introduction", 2007, External Link
- "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: Preface", 2015, No Abstract
- "Nagel (Thomas) - Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life", 1989
- "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem", 2015, Internal PDF Link, Footnote242
- "Regis (Ed) - Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge", 1991
- "Rosenberg (Jay) - Prefaces & Prelude to Thinking Clearly About Death", 1998, Write-Up Note243
- "Velleman (David) - Beyond Price: Essays on Life and Death - Introduction", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Yourgrau (Palle) - Can the Dead Really Be Buried?", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Harming the Dead:
- "Lam (Barry) - Is it moral to respect the wishes of the dead, above the living?", 2017, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Taylor (James Stacey) - The Myth of Posthumous Harm", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Killing:
- "Booth (Katie) - What I learned about disability and infanticide from Peter Singer", 2018, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Mulgan (Tim) - Critical Notice of Jeff McMahan's The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Newman (Sandra) - Infanticide", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Suicide:
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion", 2007, External Link
- Near Death Experiences244
- Aeon:
- "Bering (Jesse) - Life after Death", 2013, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Jarrett (Christian) - Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Shushan (Gregory) - Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs", 2021, External Link
- "Sommer (Andreas) - Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface", 1992
- "Ayer (A.J.) - Postscript to a Postmortem", 1988, External Link
- "Ayer (A.J.) - That Undiscovered Country", 1989, No Abstract
- "Ayer (A.J.) - What I Saw When I Was Dead", 1997, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction: Introduction", 1984
- "Blackmore (Susan) - Dying to Live: Preface", 1993
- "Brandon (Ed) - Review of David Lund's 'Persons, Souls and Death'", 2009, External Link
- "Buzzi (Giorgio) - Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences", 2002, Note: Lancet.
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Thank Goodness!", 2007, External Link
- "Edwards (Paul) - Dr. Kubler-Ross, Dr. Moody, and the New Immortality Movement", 2002
- "Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences", 1995, Book
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences", 2007, External Link, Note: Section 2.
- "Moshakis (Alex) - What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us?", 2021, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- Out of Body Experiences245
- Aeon:
- "Emslie (Karen) - Hallucinogenic nights", 2014, Annotations, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote246
- General:
- "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface", 1992
- "BBC, Burgess (Gary) - Why do we know so little about ME?", 2018, External Link
- "Buzzi (Giorgio) - Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences", 2002
- "Edwards (Paul) - The Astral Body", 2002
- "Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences", 1995, Book
- "Godelek (Kamuran) - Review of Thomas Metzinger's 'The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self'", 2009, External Link
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Other arguments for dualism", 2000
- Persistent Vegetative State247
- General:
- "Baillie (James) - What Am I?", 1993, Write-Up Note248, Footnote249
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Conditions of Personhood", 1997, Write-Up Note250, Annotations
- "Fine (Kit) - The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter", 2003, Write-Up Note251, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Gert (Bernard), Lizza (John), Youngner (Stuart) & Chiong (Winston) - Matters of 'Life' and 'Death'", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Liao (S. Matthew) - The Organism View Defended", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "Olson (Eric) - Persistence", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Precis of 'The Human Animal'", 2008, Write-Up Note252, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Psychology and Personal Identity", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - The Human Animal: Introduction", 1999
- "Olson (Eric) - Why We Need Not Accept the Psychological Approach", 1999
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- Life After Death
- Life After Death253
- Aeon:
- "Graziano (Michael) - Endless fun", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface", 1992
- "Atkinson (Thomas) - Human organisms and the survival of death: a systematic evaluation of the possibility of life after death given animalism", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction: Introduction", 1984
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Blackmore (Susan) - And After Death?", 1993
- "Cooper (John) - Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Preface to the Second Printing", 1989
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - Soul, Body and Survival: Introduction - Soul or Body?", 2001
- "Dennett (Daniel) - Thank Goodness!", 2007, External Link
- "Feldman (Fred) - The Survival of Death", 1992
- "Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences", 1995, Book
- "Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction", 2010, Annotations
- "Graham (George) - Death and Identity", 1998
- "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "LePoidevin (Robin) - Arguing for Atheism: Preface / Introduction", 1996
- "Lewis (Hywel David) - Persons and Life After Death: Preface", 1978
- "Loose (Jonathan) - Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief", 2012, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "MacKay (Donald) - Computer Software and Life After Death", 1997
- "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note254, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Penelhum (Terence) - Immortality: Introduction", 1973
- "Price (H.H.) - Motives for disbelief in life after death", 1971
- "Price (H.H.) - Two conceptions of the Next World", 1971
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
- "Stewart-Williams (Steve) - On the Origin of Afterlife Beliefs by Means of Memetic Selection", 2015
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion", 2000, Book
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - Other arguments for dualism", 2000
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Vardy (Peter) & Arliss (Julie) - Life after Death", 2006, No Abstract
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Christians Should Affirm Mind-Body Dualism", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Video: Can We Survive Our Death?", 2015
- Resurrection255
- Philosophical:
- "Atkinson (Thomas) - Material Beings and the Metaphysics of the Resurrection", 2014, Internal PDF Link
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Material Persons and the Doctrine of Resurrection", 2001, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity: Preface + Introduction - Seed Images, Ancient and Modern", 1995, Write-Up Note256
- "Carruthers (Peter) - After-Life for Materialists", 1986
- "Carruthers (Peter) - After-Life for Physicalists", 2004
- "Chappell (Tim), Chappell (Sophie Grace) - Seeds: On Personal Identity and the Resurrection", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Davis (Stephen T.) & Martin (L. Michael) - Debate: Is It Rational for Christians to Believe in the Resurrection?", 2004, Annotations
- "Gasser (Georg) - Personal Identity and Resurrection: Introduction", 2010, Annotations
- "Heythrop Student - Seminar Paper: Philosophy of Religion - I Will Survive", 2010, No Abstract
- "Hudson (Hud) - Multiple Location and Single Location Resurrection", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Loose (Jonathan) - Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief", 2012, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note257, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Perry (John) - A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality", 1978, Book
- "Price (H.H.) - Motives for disbelief in life after death", 1971
- "Price (H.H.) - The post-Resurrection appearances", 1971
- "Price (H.H.) - Two conceptions of the Next World", 1971
- "Russell (Bertrand) - Do We Survive Death?", 1985, Write-Up Note258
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
- "Singh (Yii-Jan) - Semen, Philosophy, and Paul", 2007, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come", 2016, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Video: Can We Survive Our Death?", 2015
- Religious:
- "Atkinson (Basil F.C.) - Life and Immortality: An Examination of the Nature and Meaning of Life and Death as they are revealed in the Scriptures", 1964?, Book
- "Bullinger (E.W.) - The Resurrection of the Body", 2006, Book
- "Guillebaud (Harold E.) - The Righteous Judge: A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment", 1964?, Book
- "Himmelfarb (Martha) - Afterlife and Resurrection", 2011, No Abstract
- "Ozanne (Charles) - If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15", 2013, Book
- "Sanders (E.P.) - The Historical Figure of Jesus: Epilogue - The Resurrection", 1993, No Abstract
- "Ward (Keith) - The Bad Argument: Review of A.C. Grayling's 'The God Argument'", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Wright (N.T.) - The Resurrection of the Son of God: Preface, Bibliography & Indexes", 2003
- Reincarnation259
- Interim States
- Corpses260
- Aeon:
- "Kaufman (Sharon) - Neither person nor cadaver", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Press (Michael) - Mummies among us", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Carter (William) - Death and Bodily Transfiguration", 1984, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Carter (William) - Will I Be a Dead Person?", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Feldman (Fred) - A Materialist Conception of Death", 1992
- "Feldman (Fred) - The Survival of Death", 1992
- "Francescotti (Robert) - Fetuses, corpses and the psychological approach to personal identity", 2005, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - Do Dead Bodies Pose a Problem for Biological Approaches to Personal Identity", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Lockwood (Michael) - When Does a Life Begin?", 1987, Annotations
- "Mackie (David) - Personal Identity and Dead People", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Animalism and the Corpse Problem", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Immanent Causation and Life After Death", 2010, Write-Up Note261, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - The Person and the Corpse", 2015, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Constitution View", 2001, Write-Up Note262, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Rosenberg (Jay) - Bodies, Corpses, and Chunks of Matter: A Reply to Carter", 1984, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern", 2009
- "Thomas (Janice L.) - What matters for survival and the logical possibility of resurrection", 2000
- "Wilson (Jack) - Beyond Horses and Oak Trees: A New Theory of Individuation for Living Entities", 1999, Annotations
- "Yourgrau (Palle) - Can the Dead Really Be Buried?", 2000, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Bodily Resurrection: The Falling Elevator Model Revisited", 2010, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Disembodied Existence263
- Aeon:
- "Aeon - Video - The undying hydra", 2021, External Link
- General:
- "Hospers (John) - Is the Notion of Disembodied Existence Intelligible?", 1997
- "Lowe (E.J.) - Review of Peter Unger's - 'All the Power in the World'", 2008, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- "Penelhum (Terence) - Immortality: Introduction", 1973
- "Simons (Peter) - Review of 'Kinds of Being: A Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms' by E. J. Lowe", 1992, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
- Interregnum264
- Immortality
- Immortality265
- Aeon:
- "Cave (Stephen) - Everlasting glory", 2014, Annotations, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Cave (Stephen) - Remember Herostratus", 2012, Annotations, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction: Introduction", 1984
- "Edwards (Paul) - Dr. Kubler-Ross, Dr. Moody, and the New Immortality Movement", 2002
- "Grossman (Lev), Kurzweil (Ray) - 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal", 2011, Write-Up Note266, Annotations
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Immortality Part II; The value of life, Part I", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Plato, Part II: Arguments for the immortality of the soul", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Plato, Part III: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Plato, Part IV: Arguments for the immortality of the soul (cont.)", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - The badness of death, Part III; Immortality, Part I", 2007, External Link
- "Perry (John) - A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality", 1978, Book
- "Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Immortality", 2009
- "Williams (Bernard) - The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- Ivan Ilych267
- Aeon:
- "Baillie (James) - We all know that we will die, so why do we struggle to believe it?", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- General:
- "Cook (T.C.B.) - The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories: Introduction", 2004, No Abstract
- "Gawande (Atul) - Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End", 2015, Book
- "Kagan (Shelly) - Dying alone; The badness of death, Part I", 2007, External Link
- "Kagan (Shelly) - The nature of death (continued); Believing you will die", 2007, External Link
- "Lichterman (Boleslav) - Medical Classics: The Death of Ivan Ilych", 2008, Internal PDF Link
- "Tolstoy (Leo) - The Death of Ivan Ilyich", 1886, Write-Up Note268
- Makropulos Case269
A further reading list might start with:-
- Death
- Death270
- Badness of Death:
- "Belshaw (Christopher) - Asymmetry and Non-Existence", 1993, Internal PDF Link
- "Belshaw (Christopher) - Death, Pain and Time", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Belshaw (Christopher) - Later Death/Earlier Birth", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Death's Distinctive Harm", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Bradley (Ben) - When Is Death Bad for the One Who Dies?", 2004, Internal PDF Link
- "Broome (John) - The Badness of Death and the Goodness of Life", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 20%
- "Brueckner (Anthony) & Fischer (John Martin) - The Asymmetry of Early Death and Late Birth", 1993, Internal PDF Link
- "Brueckner (Anthony) & Fischer (John Martin) - Why Is Death Bad?", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Deng (Natalja) - How A-theoretic Deprivationists Should Respond to Lucretius", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Deng (Natalja) - On Whether B-theoretic Atheists Should Fear Death", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Deng (Natalja) - Response to 'Fear of Death and the Symmetry Argument'", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
- "Feinberg (Joel) - Harm to Others", 1993, Read = 6%
- "Fischer (John Martin) - Mortal Harm", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Hershenov (David) - A More Palatable Epicureanism", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Johansson (Jens) - When do We Incur Mortal Harm?", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Kamm (F.M.) - Why Is Death Bad and Worse Than Pre-Natal Non-Existence?", 1988, No Abstract
- "Kamm (F.M.) - Why Is Death Bad?", 1998, Read = 11%
- "Kaufman (Frederik) - Death and deprivation; or, why Lucretius' symmetry argument fails", 1996, Internal PDF Link
- "Kaufman (Frederik) - Thick and Thin Selves: Reply to Fischer and Speak", 2000, Internal PDF Link
- "Kaufmann (Walter) - Death Without Dread", 2007, No Abstract
- "Levenbook (Barbara Baum) - The Retroactivity Problem", 2002, Read = 25%
- "Li (Jack) - Can Death Be a Harm to the Person Who Dies", 2002, Book
- "Luper (Steven) - Adaptation", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Luper (Steven) - Annihilation", 1985, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Luper (Steven) - Exhausting Life", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Luper (Steven) - Mortal Harm", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "McMahan (Jeff) - Death", 2002
- "McMahan (Jeff) - Death and the Value of Life", 1988, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "Murphy (Jeffrie) - Rationality and the Fear of Death", 1976, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Nowacki (Mark) - Death stings back: a reply to Sorensen", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - The Fear of Death", 1987
- "Pummer (Theron) - The Worseness of Nonexistence", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Purves (Duncan) - Desire satisfaction, death, and time", 2017, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Rosenbaum (Stephen) - Epicurus and Annihilation", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Rosenbaum (Stephen) - How to be Dead and Not Care: A Defense of Epicurus", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Sider (Ted) - The Evil of Death - What Can Metaphysics Contribute", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Solomon (David) - Is There Happiness after Death?", 1976, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Sumner (L.W.) - A Matter of Life and Death", 1976, Internal PDF Link
- "Trisel (Brooke Alan) - What is a Premature Death?", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Yehezkel (Gal) - Fear of Death and the Symmetry Argument", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- Dead People:
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Death and the Afterlife", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 81%
- "Gilmore (Cody) - The metaphysics of mortals: death, immortality, and personal time", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life", 1996, Book, Read = 1%
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Death and Immortality: Introduction", 1987, Read = 50%
- "Stokes (Patrick) - Are there dead persons", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Yourgrau (Palle) - The Dead", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Personal Identity and the Survival of Death", 2015, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
- Death & Ethics:
- "Kamm (F.M.) - Morality, Mortality (Vol. 1) - Death and Whom to Save from It", 1993 / 1998, Book
- "McMahan (Jeff) - The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life", 2002, Book
- "Regan (Tom), Ed. - Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy", 1980, Book, Read = 2%
- "Singer (Peter) - Rethinking Life & Death - The Collapse Our Traditional Ethics", 1994, Book, Read = 1%
- Definition of Death:
- "Bernat (James L.) - The Debate over Death Determination in DCD", 2010, Internal PDF Link
- "Bernat (James L.), Culver (Charles M.) & Gert (Bernard) - Defining Death in Theory and Practice", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Bernat (James L.), Culver (Charles M.) & Gert (Bernard), Etc. - Defining Death: Which Way?", 1982, Internal PDF Link
- "Chiong (Winston) - Brain Death without Definitions", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Footnote271
- "Clements (Coleen) - Death and philosophical diversions", 1979, Internal PDF Link
- "DeGrazia (David) - Identity, What We Are, and the Definition of Death", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 3%
- "DeGrazia (David) - The Nature of Human Death", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Fischer (John Martin), Ed. - The Metaphysics of Death", 1993, Book, Read = 4%
- "Lizza (John) - Persons And Death: What's Metaphysically Wrong With Our Current Statutory Definition Of Death?", 1993, Internal PDF Link
- "Lizza (John) - Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death", 2006, Book, Read = 2%
- "Lizza (John) - Potentiality, Irreversibility, and Death", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Lizza (John) - Where's Waldo? The 'decapitation gambit' and the definition of death", 2011, Internal PDF Link
- "Lizza (John), Truog (Robert D.), Robertson (John A.) & Bernat (James L.) - Death: Merely Biological?", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Luper (Steven) - Death", 2002-09, Internal PDF Link, Read = 2%, Footnote272
- "Nagel (Thomas) - Death", 1970, Internal PDF Link
- "Nguyen (Doyen) - Death: The Loss of Life-Constitutive Integration", 2019, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Death", 1987
- "Singer (Peter) - How Death was Redefined", 1994
- "Warren (James) - The Symmetry Problem", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Youngner (Stuart J.) & Arnold (Robert M.) - Philosophical Debates About the Definition of Death: Who Cares?", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- Dying:
- "Blatti (Stephan) - Mortal harm and the antemortem experience of death", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
- "Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging", 2014, Book, Read = 17%
- "Green (James W.) - Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying", 2008, Book, Read = 2%, Note: Process of dying.
- "Greinacher (Norbert) & Muller (Alois), Eds. - The Experience of Dying", 1974, Book
- "Hershenov (David) - The Death of a Person", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hershenov (David) - The Problematic Role of ‘Irreversibility’ in the Definition of Death", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hinton (John) - Dying", 1967, Book
- "Hume (David) - On Suicide", 1755, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - 'My Death'", 1987
- "Scheffler (Samuel) - Aging as a Normative Phenomenon", 2016, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Valberg (J.J.) - I Will Die", 2007, Footnote273
- "Weisman (David) - Dissolution into Death: The Mind’s Last Symptoms Indicate Annihilation", 2015
- Euthanasia:
- "Greif (Adam) - The Morality of Euthanasia", 2019, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Hershenov (David) - Death, Dignity and Degradation", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Hershenov (David) - Death, Dignity and Moral Status", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Pierre (Joseph) - Culturally sanctioned suicide: Euthanasia, seppuku, and terrorist martyrdom", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Robichaud (Philip) - Metaphysics and Morality at the Boundaries of Life", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Wyatt (John) - Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 117%
- General:
- "Belshaw (Christopher) - Review of 'Persons, Humanity, and the Definition of Death' by John Lizza", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens) - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death", 2015, Book, Read = 7%, Footnote274
- "Edwards (Paul) - Existentialism and Death: A Survey of Some Confusions and Absurdities", 1969
- "Jungel (Eberhard) - Death: The Riddle and the Mystery", 1975, Book
- "Kaag (John) - The greatest use of life", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
- "Luper (Steven) - The Philosophy of Death", 2012, Book, Read = 2%
- "Luper (Steven), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death", 2014, Book, Read = 5%
- "McMahan (Jeff) - Endings", 2002
- "Rosenberg (Jay) - Thinking Clearly About Death", 1998, Book, Read = 2%
- "Valberg (J.J.) - Dream, Death, and the Self", 2007, Book, Read = 1%
- "Wright (N.T.) & Kagan (Shelly) - Video: Living Well in the Light of Death: Two views on life - before (and after?) the inevitable", 2014, Read = 10%
- Harming the Dead:
- "Callahan (Joan C.) - On Harming the Dead", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Grover (Dorothy) - Posthumous Harm", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Hetherington (Stephen) - Deathly Harm", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Keller (Simon) - Posthumous Harm", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Levenbook (Barbara Baum) - Harming Someone after His Death", 1984, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Levenbook (Barbara Baum) - Harming the Dead, Once Again", 1985, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Luper (Steven) - Past Desires and the Dead", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Luper (Steven) - Posthumous Harm", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Marquis (Don) - Harming the Dead", 1985, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Pitcher (George) - The Misfortunes of the Dead", 1984, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Portmore (Douglas W.) - Desire Fulfillment and Posthumous Harm", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Ridge (Michael) - Giving the Dead Their Due", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- Killing:
- "Bykvist (Krister) - Killing and Extinction", 2014, Internal PDF Link
- "Coope (Christopher) - Death Sentences", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Hershenov (David) - Misunderstanding the Moral Equivalence of Killing and Letting Die", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- Suicide:
- "Brandt (Richard B.) - The Morality and Rationality of Suicide", 1979
- "Deng (Natalja) - Response to Jeffrey Bishop", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Hill (Thomas E.) - Killing Ourselves", 2014, Internal PDF Link
- "Velleman (David) - A Right of Self-Termination?", 1999, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
- "Velleman (David) - Against the Right to Die", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- Near Death Experiences275
- General:
- "Augustine (Keith) - Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences", 2003 (Updated 2008), External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Augustine (Keith) - Near-Death Experiences are Hallucinations", 2015
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Near-Death Experiences", 1984, No Abstract
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - The Evidence from Near-Death Experiences", 1984, No Abstract
- "Beloff (John) - Is There Anything Beyond Death? A Parapsychologist's Summation", 1997, No Abstract
- "Blackmore (Susan) - Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences", 1993, Book, Read = 2%
- "Chopra (Deepak) & Hameroff (Stuart) - Can science explain the soul?", 2010, External Link, Read = 150%
- "Cook (Emily Williams), Greyson (Bruce) & Stevenson (Ian) - Do Any Near-Death Experiences Provide Evidence for the Survival of Human Personality after Death? Relevant Features and Illustrative Case Reports", 1998, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
- "Cooper (John) - Holistic Dualism, Science, and Philosophy", 1989, Read = 4%, Note: Section 2.
- "Green (James W.) - Beyond the Good Death: Soulscapes", 2008
- "Grossman (Neal) - Four Errors Commonly Made by Professional Debunkers", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
- "Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life", 1996, Book, Read = 1%, Note: Preface, etc.?
- "IANDS - Journal of Near-Death Studies", 2023, External Link
- "Moody (Raymond A.) - Life After Life", 2001, Book, Read = 4%
- "Moody (Raymond A.) - The Light Beyond", 1988, Book, Read = 3%
- "Rawlings (Maurice S.) - To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence", 1993, Book, Write-Up Note276, Read = 1%
- "Rosenthal (Abigail) - What Ayer Saw When He Was Dead", 2004
- "Schick (Theodore) & Vaughn (Lewis) - Case Studies in the Extraordinary", 2008, No Abstract, Read = 9%
- "Swinburne (Richard) - The Future of the Soul", 1997
- "van Lommel (Pim), Etc. - Near-death Experience in Survivors of Cardiac arrest: a prospective study in the Netherlands", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Wikipedia - Near-death experience", 2023, External Link, Read = 8%
- "Zaleski (Carole) - Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times", 1987, Book, Read = 3%
- Out of Body Experiences277
- General:
- "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death", 1992, Book, Read = 2%
- "Almeder (Robert) - Out-of-Body Experiences", 1992
- "Augustine (Keith) - Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences", 2003 (Updated 2008), External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Augustine (Keith) - Near-Death Experiences are Hallucinations", 2015
- "Blackmore (Susan) - Beyond the Body", 1992, Book, Footnote278
- "Blackmore (Susan) - Out-of-Body Experiences are not Evidence for Survival", 2015
- "Blackmore (Susan) - The Implausibility of Astral Bodies and Astral Worlds", 2015
- "Chopra (Deepak) & Hameroff (Stuart) - Can science explain the soul?", 2010, External Link, Read = 150%
- "Dilley (Frank B.) - Review of Robert Almeder 'Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life after Death'", 1995, Internal PDF Link
- "Ehrsson (H. Henrik) - The Experimental Induction of Out-of-Body Experiences", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life", 1996, Read = 2%
- "McGinn (Colin) - Minds & Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas", 1997, Book
- "Metzinger (Thomas) - Being No One: Neurophenomenological Case Studies II", 2004
- "Metzinger (Thomas) - The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self", 2009, Read = 1%
- "Moravec (Hans) - Pigs in Cyberspace", 2013
- "Morse (Melvin) - Life After Life: Preface", 2001, Read = 42%
- "Radden (Jennifer) - The Divided Minds of Mental Disorder", 1996
- "Rawlings (Maurice S.) - To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence", 1993, Book, Write-Up Note279, Read = 1%
- "Talbot (Michael) - The Holographic Universe", 1992, Book, Read = 1%
- Persistent Vegetative State280
- General:
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - The Stem Cell Challenge", 2006, Read = 7%
- "Cranford (Ronald E.) - The Persistent Vegetative State: The Medical Reality (Getting the Facts Straight)", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- "Lizza (John) - Persons And Death: What's Metaphysically Wrong With Our Current Statutory Definition Of Death?", 1993, Internal PDF Link
- "Luper (Steven) - Posthumous Harm", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "McMahan (Jeff) - Endings", 2002
- "Noe (Alva) - Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness", 2009, Read = 11%
- "Singer (Peter) - Rethinking Life & Death - The Collapse Our Traditional Ethics", 1994, Book, Read = 1%, Footnote281
- "Wikipedia - Persistent vegetative state", 2023, External Link, Read = 12%
- "Wikler (Daniel) - Not Dead, Not Dying? Ethical Categories and Persistent Vegetative State", 1988, Internal PDF Link
- Life After Death
- Life After Death282
- General:
- "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death", 1992, Book, Read = 2%
- "Atkinson (Thomas) - A Reply to Anders’ ‘Mind, Mortality and Material Being: van Inwagen and the Dilemma of Material Survival of Death’", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Bacchiocchi (Samuele) - Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny", 2001, Book, Read = 1%
- "Badham (Paul) - Christian Beliefs About Life After Death", 1976, Book, Read = 1%
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction", 1984, Book, Read = 5%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Death and the Afterlife", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 81%
- "Baltimore (Joseph A.) - Got to Have Soul", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Bruntrup (Godehard) - Soul, Body and Survival: The Renaissance of Christian Materialism", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Caldwell (Christopher M.) - Review - 'Surviving Death' by Mark Johnston", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Carter (William) - Is there life after Summer-death?", 1983, No Abstract
- "Cooper (John) - Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-dualism Debate", 2000, Book, Read = 23%
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - Dualism, Materialism and the Problem of Post Mortem Survival", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Corcoran (Kevin), Ed. - Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons", 2001, Book, Read = 12%
- "Cosculluela (Victor) - Death and God: The Case of Richard Swinburne", 1997, Internal PDF Link, Read = 44%
- "Davis (Stephen T.) - Philosophy and Life After Death: The Questions and the Options", 2000, No Abstract
- "Dilley (Frank B.) - Review of Robert Almeder 'Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life after Death'", 1995, Internal PDF Link
- "Dunne (John S.) - City of the Gods: A Study in Myth and Mortality", 1974, Book, Read = 13%
- "Eddebo (Johan) - Death and the Self: A Metaphysical Investigation of the Rationality of Afterlife Beliefs in the Contemporary Intellectual Climate", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
- "Edwards (Paul), Ed. - Immortality", 1997, Book, Read = 4%
- "Flew (Antony), Ed. - Body, Mind and Death", 1964, Book
- "Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?", 2010, Book, Read = 95%
- "Hales (Steven D.) - Evidence and the Afterlife", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life", 1996, Book, Read = 1%
- "Johnston (Mark) - Surviving Death", 2010, Book, Read = 13%
- "Kerr (Fergus) - Immortal Longings: Versions of Transcending Humanity", 1997, Book, Read = 1%, Footnote283
- "Kvanvig (Jonathan L.) - Hell", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Lewis (Hywel David) - Persons and Life After Death", 1978, Book, Read = 3%
- "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death", 2015, Book, Read = 15%, Footnote284
- "Merricks (Trenton) - How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality", 2001
- "Moody (Raymond A.) - Life After Life", 2001, Book, Read = 4%
- "Moody (Raymond A.) - The Light Beyond", 1988, Book, Read = 3%
- "More (Max) & Vita-More (Natasha) - Transhumanism: Engines of Life: Identity and Beyond Death - Introduction", 2013, Read = 100%
- "Oderberg (David) - Survivalism, Corruptionism, and Mereology", 2012, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Ogilvie (Daniel M.) - A Partial History of Afterlife Beliefs", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Penelhum (Terence) - Survival and Disembodied Existence", 1970, Book
- "Penelhum (Terence), Ed. - Immortality", 1973, Book, Read = 7%
- "Plato, Gallop (David) - Phaedo", 1993/1999, Book, Read = 30%
- "Price (H.H.) - The Problem of Life After Death", 1968, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "Rawlings (Maurice S.) - To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence", 1993, Book, Write-Up Note285, Read = 1%
- "Rosenberg (Jay) - 'Life After Death' - In Search of the Question", 1998
- "Seymour (Charles) - A Theodicy of Hell", 2000, Book, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 1%
- "Sider (Ted) - Hell and Vagueness", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
- "Silverstein (Harry) - Review of Thinking Clearly About Death by Jay F. Rosenberg", 1984, Internal PDF Link
- "Swinburne (Richard) - The Possibility of Life after Death", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Tipler (Frank) - Comparison of the Heaven Predicted by Modern Physics With the Afterlife Hoped For by the Great World Religions", 1995
- "Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead", 1995, Book, Read = 2%
- "Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Immortality: Preface", 1995, Read = 250%
- "Van Evra (James) - On Death as a Limit", 1971, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Vasalou (Sofia) - Personal identity across temporal gaps: an Islamic view of the problem", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Wandinger (Nikolaus) - The Rationale behind Purgatory", 2010, Read = 13%
- "Wilson (P. Eddy) - Is Seamless Post-Mortem Existence Necessary for Survival?", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Personal Identity and the Survival of Death", 2015, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
- Resurrection286
- Philosophical:
- "Atkinson (Thomas) - Conceivability, Possibility and the Resurrection of Material Beings", 2016, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
- "Atkinson (Thomas) - The Resurrection of Material Beings - Recomposition, Compaction and Miracles", 2016?, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Badham (Paul) - Christian Beliefs About Life After Death", 1976, Book, Read = 1%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Death and the Afterlife", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 81%
- "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection", 2010, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
- "Braude (Stephen) - Personal Identity and Post-Mortem Survival", 2005, Internal PDF Link
- "Buckareff (Andrei A.) & Van Wagenen (Joel S.) - Surviving Resurrection", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - Constitution, Resurrection, and Relationality", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 40%
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - Dualism, Materialism and the Problem of Post Mortem Survival", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Davis (Stephen T.) - Physicalism and Resurrection", 2001
- "Davis (Stephen T.) - Resurrection, Personal Identity, and the Will of God", 2010, Read = 33%
- "Drange (Theodore M.) - The Pluralizability Objection to a New-Body Afterlife", 2015
- "Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?", 2010, Book, Read = 95%, Footnote287
- "Haag (Johannes) - Personhood, Bodily Self-Ascription, and Resurrection: A Kantian Approach", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 27%
- "Hasker (William) - Materialism and the Resurrection - Are the Prospects Improving", 2011, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Hershenov (David) - The Metaphysical Problem of Intermittent Existence and the Possibility of Resurrection", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Hershenov (David) - Van Inwagen, Zimmerman, and the Materialist Conception of Resurrection", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Hudson (Hud) - Nothing But Dust and Ashes", 2001
- "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death", 2015, Book, Read = 15%
- "Merricks (Trenton) - The Resurrection of the Body", 2011, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Olding (A.) - Resurrection Bodies and Resurrection Worlds", 1970, Internal PDF Link
- "Penelhum (Terence) - Resurrection", 1970, No Abstract
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Death and Immortality", 1987, Book, Read = 3%
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Resurrection", 1987
- "Peters (Ted) - Resurrection of the Very Embodied Soul?", 2000, External Link
- "Puccetti (Roland) - The Conquest of Death", 1976, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Schartl (Thomas) - Bodily Resurrection: When Metaphysics Needs Phenomenology", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 19%
- "Strickland (Lloyd) - The doctrine of 'the resurrection of the same body' in early modern thought", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Sutherland (Stewart R.) - Immortality and Resurrection", 1967, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
- "Swinburne (Richard) - The Possibility of Life after Death", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead", 1995, Book, Read = 2%
- "Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Resurrection of the Dead to Eternal Life", 1995
- "Tipler (Frank) - What Happens After the Resurrection: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory", 1995
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - The Possibility of Resurrection", 1978, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 89%
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - Personal Identity and the Survival of Death", 2015, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
- "Zimmerman (Dean) - The Compatibility of Materialism and Survival: The “Falling Elevator” Model", 1999, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 28%
- Religious:
- "Alter (Michael J.) - The Resurrection & Christian Apologetics: A Critical Inquiry Volume 2", 2018, Book, Read = 15%
- "Alter (Michael J.) - The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry", 2015, Book, Read = 7%
- "Anders (Paul C.) - Material Being and the Survival of Death: A Dilemma for the Religiously Oriented Materialist", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Aquinas (Thomas) - The Resurrection of Man", 1997, No Abstract
- "Aquinas (Thomas) - The Resurrection: Objections and Answers", 1973, No Abstract
- "Bacchiocchi (Samuele) - Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny", 2001, Book, Read = 1%
- "Bacchiocchi (Samuele) - Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny", 2001, Internal PDF Link, Read = 2%
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - The Meaning of Resurrection, Immortality and Eternal Life", 1984, No Abstract
- "Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336", 1995, Book, Read = 4%
- "Corcoran (Kevin) - I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to Come", 2006, Read = 13%
- "Cullmann (Oscar) - Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?", 1973, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Gillman (Neil) - The Death Of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought", 2006 / 1997, Book, Read = 1%
- "Hick (John) - The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body Reconsidered", 1960, No Abstract
- "Hick (John) - The Recreation of the Psycho-Physical Person", 1997, No Abstract
- "Houston (Sam) - Possibility and Identity: Ricoeur and Frei on the Resurrection", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Knohl (Israel) - Messiahs and Resurrection in 'The Gabriel Revelation'", 2009, Book, Read = 4%
- "Macquarrie (John) - Christian Hope", 1978, Book
- "Morison (Frank) - Who Moved the Stone?", 2010, Book, Read = 4%, Footnote288
- "Ozanne (Charles) - The Life and Soul of Mortal Man: His Composition, Disintegration, and Resurrection", 1995, Book, Read = 7%
- "Russell (Robert John) - Scientific Insights into the Problem of Personal Identity in the Context of a Christian Theology of Resurrection and Eschatology", 2010, Read = 40%
- "Steinhart (Eric) - The Revision Theory of Resurrection", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Swinburne (Richard) - The Probability of the Resurrection of Jesus", 2013, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Tapp (Christian) - Joseph Ratzinger on Resurrection Identity", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
- "Turner (Geoffrey) - Varieties of Resurrection", 1975, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "van Dyke (Christina) - Human Identity, Immanent Causal Relations, and the Principle of Non-Repeatability: Thomas Aquinas on the Bodily Resurrection", 2007, Internal PDF Link
- "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Resurrection", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Vasalou (Sofia) - Personal identity across temporal gaps: an Islamic view of the problem", Undated, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Wenham (John) - Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Stories in Conflict?", 1984, Book, Read = 1%
- "Wright (N.T.) - Can a Scientist Believe in the Resurrection?", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Wright (N.T.) - The Resurrection of the Son of God", 2003, Book, Read = 7%
- "Wyatt (John) - Matters of Life and Death", 2009, Book, Read = 13%
- Reincarnation289
- General:
- "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death", 1992, Book, Read = 2%
- "Angel (Leonard) - Is There Adequate Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? An Analysis of Ian Stevenson’s Work", 2015
- "Dilley (Frank B.) - Review of Robert Almeder 'Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life after Death'", 1995, Internal PDF Link
- "Ducasse (C.J.) - Survival As Transmigration", 1997, No Abstract
- "Filice (Carlo) - The moral case for reincarnation", 2006, Internal PDF Link
- "Hales (Steven D.) - Reincarnation Redux", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
- "Johnson (Raynor) - Preexistence, Reincarnation and Karma", 1997, No Abstract
- "Leslie (John) - Review of Paul Edwards: 'Reincarnation'", 1998, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
- "MacIntosh (J.J.) - Reincarnation and Relativized Identity", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
- "MacIntosh (J.J.) - Reincarnation, Closest Continuers, and The Three Card Trick: A Reply To Noonan And Daniels", 1992, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
- "Martin (Raymond) - Review of Paul Edwards. Reincarnation: A Critical Examination", 1997, Internal PDF Link
- "Noonan (Harold) - The Possibility of Reincarnation", 1990, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
- "Penelhum (Terence) - 'Reincarnation'", 1970, No Abstract
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Rebirth", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Ransom (Champe) - A Critique of Ian Stevenson’s Rebirth Research", 2015
- "Smythe (Ingrid Hansen) - Objections to Karma and Rebirth: An Introduction", 2015
- "Stevenson (Ian) - Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation", 2001 (Revised Edition), Book
- "Walter (Tony) - Reincarnation, Modernity and Identity", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- Interim States
- Corpses290
- General:
- "Bullinger (E.W.) - The Rich Man and Lazarus - the Intermediate State", 1902/1992, Book, Read = 3%
- "DeGrazia (David) - Human Persons: Numerical Identity and Essence", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Feldman (Fred) - Death and the Disintegration of Personality", 2015, Read = 6%
- "Hershenov (David) - Death, Persons, and Sparse Ontologies: The Problem of Too Many Dying Thinkers", Undated, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Hershenov (David) - Organisms and their Bodies: Response to LaPorte", 2009, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Hudson (Hud) - Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts", 2001
- "Johnston (Mark) - Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To? Addendum: From Corpse Snatching To Identity Voluntarism", 2010, Read = 3%
- "LaPorte (Joseph) - On Two Reasons for Denying That Bodies Can Outlast Life", 2009, Internal PDF Link
- "Sauchelli (Andrea) - The animal, the corpse, and the remnant-person", 2016, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Scheick (William J.) - The Author's Corpse and the Humean Problem of Personal Identity in Hawthorne's 'The House of the Seven Gables'", 1992, Internal PDF Link
- Disembodied Existence291
- General:
- "Blose (B.L.) - Materialism and Disembodied Minds", 1981, Internal PDF Link
- "Carter (William) - Plantinga on Disembodied Existence", 1972, Internal PDF Link
- "Donnelly (John) - Suicide and Rationality", 1978, Read = 60%
- "Drange (Theodore M.) - Conceptual Problems Confronting a Totally Disembodied Afterlife", 2015
- "Hershenov (David) & Koch-Hershenov (Rose J.) - Purgatory", 2017, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Lakoff (George) & Johnson (Mark) - Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought", 1999, Book, Footnote292
- "Moulder (James) - In Defense of Immaterial Persons", 1972
- "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Souls", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
- "Penelhum (Terence) - Survival and Disembodied Existence", 1970, Book
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Disembodied Existence", 1987
- "Tye (Michael) - On the Possibility of Disembodied Existence", 1983
- "Unger (Peter) - Why We May Become Disembodied, But To No Avail", 2006, Footnote293
- Interregnum294
- Immortality
- Immortality295
- General:
- "Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction", 1984, Book, Read = 5%
- "Barr (James) - The Garden of Eden and the Hope of Immortality", 1992, Book, Read = 14%
- "Bostock (David) - The Soul and Immortality in Plato's Phaedo", 1986, No Abstract
- "Cullmann (Oscar) - Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?", 1973, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Edwards (Paul), Ed. - Immortality", 1997, Book, Read = 4%
- "Flew (Antony) - Merely Mortal?", 2000, Book, Read = 2%
- "Forrest (Peter) - The Tree of Life: Agency and Immortality in a Metaphysics Inspired by Quantum Theory", 2007, Read = 7%
- "Gillman (Neil) - The Death Of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought", 2006 / 1997, Book, Read = 1%
- "Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life", 1996, Book, Read = 1%
- "Hume (David) - On the Immortality of the Soul", 1783, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
- "Johnston (Mark) - Surviving Death", 2010, Book, Read = 13%
- "MacIntosh (J.J.) - The Impossibility of Kantian Immortality", 1980, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death", 2015, Book, Read = 15%
- "Merricks (Trenton) - How to Live Forever Without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality", 2001
- "Murray (Michael J.) & Rea (Michael) - Mind, body, and immortality", 2008, No Abstract
- "Nussbaum (Martha) - Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Penelhum (Terence), Ed. - Immortality", 1973, Book, Read = 7%
- "Penny (Michael) - Immortality! When?", 2004, Book
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Death and Immortality", 1987, Book, Read = 3%
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Death and Immortality: Introduction", 1987, Read = 50%
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Immortality", 1987
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Regarding Immortality", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Phillips (D.Z.) - Death and Immortality", 1970, Book, Read = 2%
- "Salmond (Stewart D.F.) - The Christian Doctrine of Immortality", 1901, Book
- "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Immortality and Dualism", 2003, No Abstract
- "Sutherland (Stewart R.) - Immortality and Resurrection", 1967, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
- "Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead", 1995, Book, Read = 2%
- Ivan Ilych296
- General:
- "Donnelly (John) - Death and Ivan Ilych", 1978, Annotations, Read = 75%
- "Feldman (Steven P.) - The Professional Conscience: A Psychoanalytic Study of Moral Character in Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'", 2004, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
- "Felps (Maryann) - How to Live? What We Can Learn from Ivan Ilych's Death", 2012, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
- "Gavin (William J.) - En Attendant La Mort: Plato's Socrates, Tolstoy's Ivan Ilych, and Beckett's Waiting for Godot", 1981, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
- "Kamm (F.M.) - Rescuing Ivan Ilych: How We Live and How We Die", 2003, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Napier (James J.) - The Stages of Dying and 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'", 1983, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
- "Olney (James) - Experience, Metaphor, and Meaning: 'The Death of Ivan Ilych'", 1972, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Pachmuss (Temira) - The Theme of Love and Death in Tolstoy's the Death of Ivan Ilyich", 1961, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Death and the Meaning of Life", 1987
- "Pope (Stephen J.) - Compassion and Self-Deception: The Unity of Love and Truthfulness in Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'", 1999, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Wexelblatt (Robert) - The Higher Parody: Ivan Ilych's Metamorphosis and the Death of Gregor Samsa", 1980, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- Makropulos Case297
- General:
- "Bradley (Ben) - How Bad Is Death?", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Buben (Adam) - Heidegger and the Supposed Meaninglessness of Personal Immortality", 2016, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
- "Burley (Mikel) - Atheism and the gift of death", 2012, Internal PDF Link
- "Burley (Mikel) - Immortality and Boredom: A Response to Wisnewski", 2009, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Burley (Mikel) - Immortality and Meaning: Reflections on the Makropulos Debate", 2009, Internal PDF Link
- "Feldman (Fred) - Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death", 1993, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Kaufman (Frederik) - Pre-Vital and Post-Mortem Non-Existence", 1999, Internal PDF Link
- "Levine (Michael P.) - What Does Death Have to Do with the Meaning of Life?", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Luper-Foy (Steven) - Annihilation", 1993, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
- "Moore (Adrian W.) - Williams, Nietzsche, and the Meaninglessness of Immortality", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Nussbaum (Martha) - Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Perrett (Roy W.) - Regarding Immortality", 1986, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Preston (Ted M.) & Dixon (Scott) - Who Wants to Live Forever? Immortality, Authenticity, and Living Forever in the Present", 2007, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
- "Rosati (Connie S.) - The Makropulos Case Revisited: Reflections on Immortality and Agency", 2015, No Abstract
- "Silverstein (Harry) - The Evil of Death", 1993, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
- "Sorensen (Roy) - A Séance with an Immortal", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
- "Sorensen (Roy) - The Cheated God: Death and Personal Time", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Steele (Hunter) - Could Body-bound Immortality be Liveable?", 1976, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
- "Strauss (Jonathan) - After Death", 2000, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
- "Suits (David B.) - Why Death Is Not Bad for the One Who Died", 2001, Internal PDF Link
- "Wetzel (James) - Infinite Return: Two Ways of Wagering with Pascal", 1993, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%, Footnote298
- "Wisnewski (J. Jeremy) - Is the Immortal Life Worth Living?", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
In-Page Footnotes:
Footnote 3:
- The hyperlinks in this Introduction – as in the other Chapter Introductions – are intended to help motivate the various Notes used in the construction of the Chapter.
- So, a link appears once and once only per Note in the Note Hierarchy below, and appears – as far as possible – in the order of the Hierarchy, even if this is not its first mention.
- Links to other Notes are omitted in the Chapter Introduction, but appear passim in the Main Text.
Footnote 62:
- Consider Wikipedia: Ray Wilkins & Wikipedia: Eric Bristow dying of cardiac arrest “before their time”, plus loads of young blacks (and those mistaken for being young blacks) dying from puncture wounds.
Footnote 225:
- When I originally wrote this in February 2016.
Footnote 235:
- See the section on Research Methodology for what is to be done with these.
Footnote 241:
- This is probably the best place to start, though it spends a lot of time discussing the problem of personal identity.
Footnote 242:
- Was this book ever published?
- This paper probably ought to be in the note on Brain Transplants.
Footnote 246:
- This paper is about the author’s experience of sleep paralysis, but includes discussion of OBEs.
Footnote 249: Footnote 271:
- While it looks like this paper should be studied under the head of Brain Death, and it could be, it really deals with the definition of “death”, so is best covered here.
Footnotes 272, 274:
- One of the two main books on this topic.
Footnote 273: Footnote 278:
- This book – though sceptical – is probably the best starting point.
Footnote 281:
- I have read this in the distant past, but made no notes, so must read it again.
Footnote 283:
- Unlikely to have anything to do with resurrection, but I want an excuse for reading the book!
- Maybe belongs to Chapter 8.
Footnote 284:
- I’ve not noted individual papers from this volume, except where I’ve read them.
Footnote 287:
- Many items from this collection are separately itemised in these lists and those of related Notes.
Footnote 288:
- Hardly philosophy, but important to have read!
Footnote 292:
- This is a long and controversial book, calling on us to face up to the fact that the mind isn’t disembodied.
- I doubt I’ll have the time to read it!
Footnote 293: Footnote 298:
- The discussion of Pascal’s Wager is a tangent on a tangent, but an interesting one nonetheless.
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Medium |
Extra Links |
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Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues) |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments) |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Existence |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Introduction & Chapter Outlines |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Reincarnation |
Paper  |
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Yes |
Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Resurrection |
Paper  |
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Yes |
References & Reading List
Author |
Title |
Medium |
Source |
Read? |
Aeon |
Video - By the river |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 30 June 2021 |
Yes |
Aeon |
Video - Crannog |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 09 September 2019 |
Yes |
Aeon |
Video - In dog years |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 24 December 2020 |
Yes |
Aeon |
Video - The animal that wouldn't die |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 16 January 2015 |
Yes |
Aeon |
Video - What does dying really feel like? |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 23 June 2022 |
Yes |
Almeder (Robert) |
Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death |
Book - Cited  |
Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death |
2% |
Almeder (Robert) |
Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface |
Paper - Cited  |
Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death |
Yes |
Alter (Michael J.) |
The Resurrection & Christian Apologetics: A Critical Inquiry Volume 2 |
Book - Cited  |
Alter (Michael J.) - The Resurrection & Christian Apologetics: A Critical Inquiry Volume 2 |
15% |
Alter (Michael J.) |
The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry |
Book - Cited  |
Alter (Michael J.) - The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry |
7% |
Antony (Louise M.) |
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
30% |
Atkinson (Basil F.C.) |
Life and Immortality: An Examination of the Nature and Meaning of Life and Death as they are revealed in the Scriptures |
Book - Cited |
Atkinson (Basil F.C.) - Life and Immortality: An Examination of the Nature and Meaning of Life and Death as they are revealed in the Scriptures |
Yes |
Augustine (Keith) |
Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences |
Paper - Cited  |
Infidels Website |
6% |
Ayer (A.J.) |
Postscript to a Postmortem |
Paper - Cited  |
Ayer - The Meaning of Life |
Yes |
Ayer (A.J.) |
That Undiscovered Country |
Paper - Cited |
Ayer - The Meaning of Life |
Yes |
Ayer (A.J.) |
The Meaning of Life |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
2% |
Ayer (A.J.) |
What I Saw When I Was Dead |
Paper - Cited  |
Edwards - Immortality, pp, 269-275 |
Yes |
Bacchiocchi (Samuele) |
Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny |
Book - Cited  |
Bacchiocchi (Samuele) - Immortality or Resurrection? A Biblical Study on Human Nature and Destiny |
1% |
Badham (Paul) |
Christian Beliefs About Life After Death |
Book - Cited  |
Badham (Paul) - Christian Beliefs About Life After Death |
1% |
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) |
Immortality or Extinction |
Book - Cited  |
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction |
5% |
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) |
Immortality or Extinction: Introduction |
Paper - Cited  |
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda) - Immortality or Extinction, Introduction |
Yes |
Baillie (James) |
Problems in Personal Identity |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
45% |
Baillie (James) |
What Am I? |
Paper - Cited  |
Baillie (James) - Problems in Personal Identity, 1993, Chapter 4 |
Yes |
Baker (Lynne Rudder) |
When Do Persons Begin and End? |
Paper - Cited  |
Distinguished Faculty Lecture, December 5, 2005 |
Yes |
BBC, Burgess (Gary) |
Why do we know so little about ME? |
Paper - Cited  |
BBC Radio 5 Website/Articles; 2018; Extract taken 03 May 2023 |
Yes |
Belshaw (Christopher) |
Asymmetry and Non-Existence |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophical Studies, Vol. 70, No. 1 (Apr., 1993), pp. 103-116 |
No |
Bering (Jesse) |
Life after Death |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 13 November, 2013 |
Yes |
Blackmore (Susan) |
Beyond the Body |
Book - Cited  |
Blackmore (Susan) - Beyond the Body |
No |
Blackmore (Susan) |
Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences |
Book - Cited  |
Blackmore (Susan) - Dying to Live: Near-Death Experiences |
2% |
Blackmore (Susan) |
Dying to Live: Preface |
Paper - Cited  |
Blackmore - Dying to Live, Preface |
Yes |
Booth (Katie) |
What I learned about disability and infanticide from Peter Singer |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 10 January, 2018 |
Yes |
Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens) |
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death |
Book - Cited  |
Bradley (Ben), Feldman (Fred) & Johansson (Jens) - The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death |
7% |
Brandon (Ed) |
Review of David Lund's 'Persons, Souls and Death' |
Paper - Cited  |
Metapsychology Online Reviews, Jul 28th 2009 (Volume 13, Issue 31) |
Yes |
Bullinger (E.W.) |
The Resurrection of the Body |
Book - Cited |
Bullinger (E.W.) - The Resurrection of the Body |
Yes |
Burak (Jacob) |
Is philanthropy driven by the human desire to cheat death? |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 24 October, 2017 |
Yes |
Buzzi (Giorgio) |
Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences |
Paper - Cited  |
Lancet. Vol. 359, Issue 9323 (June 15, 2002): 2116-2117 |
Yes |
Bynum (Caroline) |
Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336 |
Book - Cited  |
Bynum (Caroline) - Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200 - 1336 |
4% |
Carter (William) |
Will I Be a Dead Person? |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Mar99, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p167, 5p; |
Yes |
Cooper (John) |
Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-dualism Debate |
Book - Cited  |
Cooper (John) - Body, Soul and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-dualism Debate |
23% |
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed. |
Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons |
Book - Cited  |
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed. - Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons |
51% |
Cushing (Simon) |
Don’t Fear the Reaper: An Epicurean Answer to Puzzles About Death and Injustice |
Paper - Cited  |
Kate Woodthorpe (ed.), Layers of Dying and Death. Oxford, UK: Inter-Disciplinary Press. pp. 117-127 (2007) |
Yes |
Cushing (Simon) |
Fred Feldman: Confrontations with the Reaper |
Paper - Cited  |
Personal Web-page, University of Michigan |
Yes |
Dennett (Daniel) |
Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
43% |
Dennett (Daniel) |
Conditions of Personhood |
Paper - Cited  |
Dennett - Brainstorms - Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology, Chapter 14, 1976 |
Yes |
Dennett (Daniel) |
Thank Goodness! |
Paper - Cited  |
Antony (Louise M.) - Philosophers without Gods |
Yes |
Dougary (Ginny) |
A Very English Farewell |
Paper - Cited  |
Radio Times, 11-17 June 2011 |
Yes |
Dunne (John S.) |
City of the Gods: A Study in Myth and Mortality |
Book - Cited  |
Dunne (John S.) - City of the Gods: A Study in Myth and Mortality |
13% |
Edwards (Paul) |
Dr. Kubler-Ross, Dr. Moody, and the New Immortality Movement |
Paper - Cited  |
Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 11 |
Yes |
Edwards (Paul) |
Reincarnation: A Critical Examination |
Book - Cited  |
Edwards (Paul) - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination |
Yes |
Edwards (Paul) |
The Astral Body |
Paper - Cited  |
Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 9 |
Yes |
Edwards (Paul), Ed. |
Immortality |
Book - Cited  |
Edwards (Paul), Ed. - Immortality |
4% |
Emslie (Karen) |
Hallucinogenic nights |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 27 June, 2014 |
Yes |
Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) |
Great Myths of Aging |
Book - Cited  |
Erber (Joan T.) & Szuchman (Lenore T.) - Great Myths of Aging |
17% |
Feldman (Fred) |
Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death |
Book - Cited  |
Feldman (Fred) - Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death |
Yes |
Feldman (Fred) |
Introduction: Confronting the Reaper |
Paper - Cited  |
Feldman - Confrontations with the Reaper, Introduction |
Yes |
Feldman (Fred) |
The Survival of Death |
Paper - Cited  |
Feldman - Confrontations with the Reaper, Chapter 6 |
Yes |
Feldman (Fred) |
The Termination Thesis |
Paper - Cited  |
Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 2000, Vol. XXIV Issue 1, p98, 18p |
Yes |
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) |
The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences |
Book - Cited  |
Fenwick (Peter) & Fenwick (Elizabeth) - The Truth in the Light: An Investigation of Over 300 Near-Death Experiences |
Yes |
Fine (Kit) |
The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter |
Paper - Cited  |
Mind - 112/446 (April 2003) |
Yes |
Fischer (John Martin) |
Death, Metaphysics, and Morality |
Paper - Cited  |
Fischer - The Metaphysics of Death, 1993, Introduction |
Yes |
Fischer (John Martin) & Speak (Daniel) |
Death and the Psychological Conception of Personal Identity |
Paper - Cited  |
Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 2000, Vol. XXIV Issue 1, p84, 10p; |
Yes |
Fischer (John Martin), Ed. |
The Metaphysics of Death |
Book - Cited  |
Fischer (John Martin), Ed. - The Metaphysics of Death |
4% |
Flew (Antony), Ed. |
Body, Mind and Death |
Book - Cited  |
Flew (Antony), Ed. - Body, Mind and Death |
No |
Gasser (Georg), Ed. |
Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? |
Book - Cited  |
Gasser (Georg), Ed. - Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death? |
95% |
Gawande (Atul) |
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End |
Book - Cited  |
Gawande (Atul) - Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End |
Yes |
Gert (Bernard), Lizza (John), Youngner (Stuart) & Chiong (Winston) |
Matters of 'Life' and 'Death' |
Paper - Cited  |
The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 36, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2006), pp. 4-6 |
Yes |
Gillman (Neil) |
The Death Of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought |
Book - Cited  |
Gillman (Neil) - The Death Of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought |
1% |
Godelek (Kamuran) |
Review of Thomas Metzinger's 'The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self' |
Paper - Cited  |
Metapsychology Online Reviews, Oct 6th 2009 (Volume 13, Issue 41) |
Yes |
Green (James W.) |
Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying |
Book - Cited  |
Green (James W.) - Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying |
2% |
Greenberg (Jeff) |
This mortal coil |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 2020 |
Yes |
Greinacher (Norbert) & Muller (Alois), Eds. |
The Experience of Dying |
Book - Cited |
Greinacher (Norbert) & Muller (Alois), Eds. - The Experience of Dying |
No |
Guillebaud (Harold E.) |
The Righteous Judge: A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment |
Book - Cited |
Guillebaud (Harold E.) - The Righteous Judge: A Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment |
Yes |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: A-B (& General) |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
100% |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: C-F |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
51% |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: G-K |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
31% |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: L-P |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
33% |
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul) |
Aeon: Q-S |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
30% |
Hick (John) |
Death and Eternal Life |
Book - Cited  |
Hick (John) - Death and Eternal Life |
1% |
Hinton (John) |
Dying |
Book - Cited  |
Hinton (John) - Dying |
No |
Ho (Anita) |
No patient is an island |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 2020 |
Yes |
Holloway (Richard) |
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death |
Book - Cited  |
Holloway (Richard) - Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death |
Yes |
Jarrett (Christian) |
Ketamine trips are uncannily like near-death experiences |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 20 June, 2019 |
Yes |
Johnston (Mark) |
Surviving Death |
Book - Cited  |
Johnston (Mark) - Surviving Death |
13% |
Jungel (Eberhard) |
Death: The Riddle and the Mystery |
Book - Cited  |
Jungel (Eberhard) - Death: The Riddle and the Mystery |
No |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Arguments for the existence of the soul, Part III: Free will and near-death experiences |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Death |
Book - Cited  |
Kagan (Shelly) - Death |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Death: Course introduction |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Fear of death |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
How to live given the certainty of death |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Other bad aspects of death, Part II |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Suicide, Part I: The rationality of suicide |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Suicide, Part II: Deciding under uncertainty |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
Suicide, Part III: The morality of suicide and course conclusion |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
The badness of death, Part II: The deprivation account |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
The nature of death (continued); Believing you will die |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kagan (Shelly) |
The value of life, Part II; Other bad aspects of death, Part I |
Paper - Cited  |
Open Yale Courses, 2007 |
Yes |
Kamm (F.M.) |
Morality, Mortality (Vol. 1) - Death and Whom to Save from It |
Book - Cited  |
Kamm (F.M.) - Morality, Mortality (Vol. 1) - Death and Whom to Save from It |
0% |
Kerr (Fergus) |
Immortal Longings: Versions of Transcending Humanity |
Book - Cited  |
Kerr (Fergus) - Immortal Longings: Versions of Transcending Humanity |
1% |
Knohl (Israel) |
Messiahs and Resurrection in 'The Gabriel Revelation' |
Book - Cited  |
Knohl (Israel) - Messiahs and Resurrection in 'The Gabriel Revelation' |
4% |
Lam (Barry) |
Is it moral to respect the wishes of the dead, above the living? |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 16 June, 2017 |
Yes |
Lamb (David) |
Diagnosing Death |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1978, 144-153 |
Yes |
Levy (Neil) |
Final thoughts |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 2021 |
Yes |
Lewis (Hywel David) |
Persons and Life After Death |
Book - Cited  |
Lewis (Hywel David) - Persons and Life After Death |
3% |
Li (Jack) |
Can Death Be a Harm to the Person Who Dies |
Book - Cited |
Li (Jack) - Can Death Be a Harm to the Person Who Dies |
No |
Liao (S. Matthew) |
The Organism View Defended |
Paper - Cited  |
The Monist, Vol. 89, No. 3, Coming into Being and Passing Away (July 2006), pp. 334-350 |
Yes |
Lizza (John) |
Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death |
Book - Cited  |
Lizza (John) - Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death |
2% |
Lockwood (Michael) |
When Does a Life Begin? |
Paper - Cited  |
Lockwood - Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine, 1987 |
Yes |
Lockwood (Michael), Ed. |
Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
29% |
Luper (Steven) |
The Philosophy of Death |
Book - Cited  |
Luper (Steven) - The Philosophy of Death |
2% |
Luper (Steven), Ed. |
The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death |
Book - Cited  |
Luper (Steven), Ed. - The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death |
5% |
Mackie (David) |
Personal Identity and Dead People |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophical Studies 95, Number 3, September 1999, pp. 219-242(24). |
Yes |
Macquarrie (John) |
Christian Hope |
Book - Cited |
Macquarrie (John) - Christian Hope |
No |
Madison (Paige) |
Who first buried the dead? |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 14 November, 2017 |
Yes |
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) |
The Myth of an Afterlife: Preface |
Paper - Cited |
Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Preface |
Yes |
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) |
The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death |
Book - Cited  |
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death |
15% |
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed. |
Mind - 112/446 (April 2003) |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited) |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
50% |
McGinn (Colin) |
Minds & Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas |
Book - Cited  |
McGinn (Colin) - Minds & Bodies: Philosophers and Their Ideas |
No |
McMahan (Jeff) |
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life |
Book - Cited  |
McMahan (Jeff) - The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life |
No |
Monso (Susana) |
What animals think of death |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 14 September 2021 |
Yes |
Moody (Raymond A.) |
Life After Life |
Book - Cited  |
Moody (Raymond A.) - Life After Life |
4% |
Moody (Raymond A.) |
The Light Beyond |
Book - Cited  |
Moody (Raymond A.) - The Light Beyond |
3% |
Morison (Frank) |
Who Moved the Stone? |
Book - Cited  |
Morison (Frank) - Who Moved the Stone? |
4% |
Moshakis (Alex) |
What do near-death experiences mean, and why do they fascinate us? |
Paper - Cited  |
Guardian On-Line, 7 March 2021 |
Yes |
Moulder (James) |
In Defense of Immaterial Persons |
Paper - Cited  |
Philosophical Papers 1972, 38-55 |
No |
Mulgan (Tim) |
Critical Notice of Jeff McMahan's The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life |
Paper - Cited  |
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Sep2004, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p443-459, 17p |
Yes |
Nagel (Thomas) |
Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life |
Paper - Cited  |
Nagel (Thomas) - A View from Nowhere, Chapter 11 |
Yes |
Nagel (Thomas) |
Death |
Paper - Cited  |
Nagel (Thomas) - Mortal Questions, 1979 |
Yes |
Nagel (Thomas) |
Mortal Questions |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
Yes |
Nagel (Thomas) |
The View from Nowhere |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
Yes |
Newman (Sandra) |
Infanticide |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 29 November, 2017 |
Yes |
Olberding (Amy) |
Is the death of an elder worse than the death of a young person? |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 20 November, 2017 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem |
Paper - Cited  |
J. Fonseca and J. Gonçalves, eds., Philosophical Perspectives on the Self, Peter Lang 2015: 21-40 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave |
Paper - Cited  |
Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 2, Chapter 19, 2015: 409-423 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson) |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
16% |
Olson (Eric) |
Persistence |
Paper - Cited  |
The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 2, pp. 22-41 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Precis of 'The Human Animal' |
Paper - Cited  |
Abstracta Special Issue I – 2008 (Brazil) |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Psychology and Personal Identity |
Paper - Cited  |
The Human Animal, September 1999, Chapter 1, pp. 7-21 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
The Human Animal - Personal Identity Without Psychology |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
The Human Animal: Introduction |
Paper - Cited  |
The Human Animal, September 1999, Introduction, pp. 3-7 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric) |
Why Is Death Bad? |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 22 April, 2016 |
Yes |
Olson (Eric), Etc. |
Abstracta Special Issue on 'The Human Animal' |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
Yes |
Ozanne (Charles) |
If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15 |
Book - Cited |
Ozanne (Charles) - If there is no resurrection of the dead … What then? An exposition of 1 Corinthians 15 |
Yes |
Ozanne (Charles) |
The Life and Soul of Mortal Man: His Composition, Disintegration, and Resurrection |
Book - Cited  |
Ozanne (Charles) - The Life and Soul of Mortal Man: His Composition, Disintegration, and Resurrection |
7% |
Penelhum (Terence) |
Survival and Disembodied Existence |
Book - Cited  |
Penelhum (Terence) - Survival and Disembodied Existence |
No |
Penelhum (Terence), Ed. |
Immortality |
Book - Cited |
Penelhum (Terence), Ed. - Immortality |
7% |
Perrett (Roy W.) |
Death and Immortality |
Book - Cited  |
Perrett (Roy W.) - Death and Immortality |
3% |
Perrett (Roy W.) |
Rebirth |
Paper - Cited  |
Perrett - Death and Immortality - 1987, Chapter 8 |
17% |
Perry (John) |
A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality |
Book - Cited  |
Perry (John) - A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality |
Yes |
Pierre (Joseph) |
Die like a dog |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 15 May 2018 |
Yes |
Plato, Gallop (David) |
Phaedo |
Book - Cited  |
Plato, Gallop (David) - Phaedo |
30% |
Popkin (Gabriel) |
What the death of an oak tree can teach us about mortality |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 06 December, 2016 |
Yes |
Rawlings (Maurice S.) |
To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence |
Book - Cited  |
Rawlings (Maurice S.) - To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence |
1% |
Regan (Tom), Ed. |
Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy |
Book - Cited  |
Regan (Tom), Ed. - Matters of Life and Death: New Introductory Essays in Moral Philosophy |
2% |
Regis (Ed) |
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
Yes |
Regis (Ed) |
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge |
Paper - Cited  |
Regis (Ed) - Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly over the Edge |
Yes |
Rosenberg (Jay) |
Prefaces & Prelude to Thinking Clearly About Death |
Paper - Cited  |
Rosenberg - Thinking Clearly About Death, 2nd Edn. 1998, Prefaces |
Yes |
Rosenberg (Jay) |
Thinking Clearly About Death |
Book - Cited  |
Rosenberg (Jay) - Thinking Clearly About Death |
2% |
Seymour (Charles) |
A Theodicy of Hell |
Book - Cited  |
Seymour (Charles) - A Theodicy of Hell |
1% |
Shoemaker (David) |
Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
Yes |
Shoemaker (David) |
Personal Identity, Rational Anticipation, and Self-Concern |
Paper - Cited  |
Shoemaker (David) - Personal Identity and Ethics: A Brief Introduction, 2009, Chapter 2 |
Yes |
Shushan (Gregory) |
Near-death experiences have long inspired afterlife beliefs |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 12 July 2021 |
Yes |
Singer (Peter) |
Rethinking Life & Death - The Collapse Our Traditional Ethics |
Book - Cited  |
Singer (Peter) - Rethinking Life & Death - The Collapse Our Traditional Ethics |
1% |
Sommer (Andreas) |
Reasons not to scoff at ghosts, visions and near-death experiences |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 6 January 2020 |
Yes |
Stone (Alison) |
Thinking about one’s birth is as uncanny as thinking of death |
Paper - Cited |
Aeon, 20 November, 2019 |
Yes |
Strawson (Galen) |
Why I Have No Future |
Paper - Cited  |
The Philosophers' Magazine (Issue ?? Appeared on TPM On-Line on 21st December 2007) |
Yes |
Talbot (Mary) |
The good death |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 25 September 2014 |
Yes |
Talbot (Michael) |
The Holographic Universe |
Book - Cited  |
Talbot (Michael) - The Holographic Universe |
1% |
Taylor (James Stacey) |
The Myth of Posthumous Harm |
Paper - Cited  |
American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 2005), pp. 311-322 |
Yes |
Telengut (Alisi) |
Video - Tengri |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 05 April 2022 |
Yes |
Thomas (Janice L.) |
Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion |
Book - Cited  |
Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion |
Yes |
Thomas (Janice L.) |
Other arguments for dualism |
Paper - Cited  |
Thomas (Janice L.) - Mind and Person in the Philosophy of Religion |
Yes |
Tipler (Frank) |
The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead |
Book - Cited  |
Tipler (Frank) - The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead |
2% |
Tolstoy (Leo) |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Paper - Cited  |
Tolstoy (Leo) - The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories |
Yes |
Tolstoy (Leo) |
The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
30% |
Valberg (J.J.) |
Dream, Death, and the Self |
Book - Cited  |
Valberg (J.J.) - Dream, Death, and the Self |
1% |
Velleman (David) |
Beyond Price: Essays on Life and Death - Introduction |
Paper - Cited  |
Retrieved from Academia.edu, 31/05/2015 |
Yes |
Velleman (David) |
Beyond Price: Papers On Life And Death |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
6% |
Velleman (David) |
Dying |
Paper - Cited  |
Think, 2012 |
Yes |
Ward (Warren) |
Sooner or later we all face death. Will a sense of meaning help us? |
Paper - Cited  |
Aeon, 6 May 2020 |
Yes |
Wenham (John) |
Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Stories in Conflict? |
Book - Cited  |
Wenham (John) - Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Stories in Conflict? |
1% |
Wikipedia |
Near-death experience |
Paper - Cited  |
Wikipedia; Extract taken 30 April 2023 |
8% |
Wikipedia |
Persistent vegetative state |
Paper - Cited  |
Wikipedia; Extract taken 03 May 2023 |
12% |
Williams (Bernard) |
Problems of the Self |
Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)  |
Bibliographical details to be supplied |
37% |
Williams (Bernard) |
The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality |
Paper - Cited  |
Williams - Problems of the Self |
Yes |
Wright (N.T.) |
The Resurrection of the Son of God |
Book - Cited  |
Wright (N.T.) - The Resurrection of the Son of God |
7% |
Wyatt (John) |
Matters of Life and Death |
Book - Cited  |
Wyatt (John) - Matters of Life and Death |
13% |
Yourgrau (Palle) |
Can the Dead Really Be Buried? |
Paper - Cited  |
Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 2000, Vol. XXIV Issue 1, p46, 23p |
Yes |
Zaleski (Carole) |
Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times |
Book - Cited  |
Zaleski (Carole) - Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near Death Experience in Mediaeval and Modern Times |
3% |
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