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LIFE AFTER DEATH? NONSENSE UPON STILTS

Laurence D. Houlgate

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Description:The subtitle of this book gives away its conclusion. The very idea of life after death is nonsense, and the recent scientific attempts to prove life after death are the stilts upon which this nonsense is precariously balanced.There have been many attempts over the centuries to prove that there is life after death. Most of these attempts assume without question the philosophical theory of mind-body dualism. This is the theory that says that human beings are a combination of two substances -- a physical substance called "the body" and an entirely different non-physical substance called "the soul," mind or spirit. One implication of mind-body dualism is an endorsement of the idea of life after death. If humans have a soul, and their body dies, then the indestructible soul will survive the death of the body. But if mind-body dualism is a false hypothesis, then the theory of life after death is at great risk of collapsing along with it.In the twenty-first century we have witnessed an entirely new approach to the question of an afterlife. It is an approach based on science, not on philosophy or religion. What allegedly makes it a scientific approach is the claim that there is "evidence" for life after death. The evidence is "near death experience" or NDE. Thousands of people who have almost died or have been declared dead and then brought back to life have reported NDEs, for example floating out of their body, seeing bright white lights, going through tunnels, visiting deceased family members, reviewing their entire life, and many more lucid experiences. None of these experiences (it is claimed) are symptoms or effects of neural activity in the brain. Therefore, these experiences must occur when a person's soul has temporarily left her body (until she is revived, when the soul, sometimes reluctantly, returns to the body).The purpose of Professor Houlgate's book LIFE AFTER DEATH? is to show that any attempt to prove the existence of an afterlife by the methods of science is completely futile. The authors of these fake science books misuse or misunderstand the scientific method, a method that requires that any proposed theory be testable, refutable and falsifiable. This is what Einstein required of his theory of special relativity and what Watson and Crick required when they hypothesized the structure of DNA. But ways to test, refute or falsify their afterlife theories are not presented by the authors of recent books promising survival of the soul after the death of the body. There is good reason for this failure, explained by Professor Houlgate in the final chapters of this short book.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with LIFE AFTER DEATH? NONSENSE UPON STILTS. To get started finding LIFE AFTER DEATH? NONSENSE UPON STILTS, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 46

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Houlgate Books

Release: 2018

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Description: The subtitle of this book gives away its conclusion. The very idea of life after death is nonsense, and the recent scientific attempts to prove life after death are the stilts upon which this nonsense is precariously balanced.There have been many attempts over the centuries to prove that there is life after death. Most of these attempts assume without question the philosophical theory of mind-body dualism. This is the theory that says that human beings are a combination of two substances -- a physical substance called "the body" and an entirely different non-physical substance called "the soul," mind or spirit. One implication of mind-body dualism is an endorsement of the idea of life after death. If humans have a soul, and their body dies, then the indestructible soul will survive the death of the body. But if mind-body dualism is a false hypothesis, then the theory of life after death is at great risk of collapsing along with it.In the twenty-first century we have witnessed an entirely new approach to the question of an afterlife. It is an approach based on science, not on philosophy or religion. What allegedly makes it a scientific approach is the claim that there is "evidence" for life after death. The evidence is "near death experience" or NDE. Thousands of people who have almost died or have been declared dead and then brought back to life have reported NDEs, for example floating out of their body, seeing bright white lights, going through tunnels, visiting deceased family members, reviewing their entire life, and many more lucid experiences. None of these experiences (it is claimed) are symptoms or effects of neural activity in the brain. Therefore, these experiences must occur when a person's soul has temporarily left her body (until she is revived, when the soul, sometimes reluctantly, returns to the body).The purpose of Professor Houlgate's book LIFE AFTER DEATH? is to show that any attempt to prove the existence of an afterlife by the methods of science is completely futile. The authors of these fake science books misuse or misunderstand the scientific method, a method that requires that any proposed theory be testable, refutable and falsifiable. This is what Einstein required of his theory of special relativity and what Watson and Crick required when they hypothesized the structure of DNA. But ways to test, refute or falsify their afterlife theories are not presented by the authors of recent books promising survival of the soul after the death of the body. There is good reason for this failure, explained by Professor Houlgate in the final chapters of this short book.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with LIFE AFTER DEATH? NONSENSE UPON STILTS. To get started finding LIFE AFTER DEATH? NONSENSE UPON STILTS, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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