Surviving death /

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Author / Creator:Johnston, Mark, 1954- author.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Description:1 online resource (ix. 393 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
Language:English
Series:Carl G. Hempel Lecture Ser.
Carl G. Hempel Lecture Ser.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11245812
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ISBN:9780691130125
0691130124
9780691130132
0691130132
9781400834600
1400834600
1282936158
9781282936157
9786612936159
6612936150
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:Johnston presents an argument for a form of immortality that divests the notion of any supernatural elements. The book is packed with illuminating philosophical reflection on the question of what we are, and what it is for us to persist over time.
Other form:Print version: Johnston, Mark, 1954- Surviving death. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691130125
Standard no.:9786612936159
9780691130132
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Is Heaven a Place We Can Get To?
  • The Popularity of the Other World
  • What Does Death Threaten?
  • Death and the Importance of Goodness
  • can the Threat be Dismissed?
  • The Aim of These Lectures
  • The Passage of the Soul
  • Locke and the Wisdom of Solomon
  • Locke and Personal Identity
  • The Irrelevance of the Soul?
  • Neo
  • Lockeanism and Survival
  • Neo
  • Lockeanism and Christian Mortalism
  • Bypassing the Bodily Criterion
  • The Problem of Perimortem Duplicates
  • The Argument Anatomized
  • Mundane Necessity
  • "Christian Physicalism"
  • How do we Know what we are?
  • Saving Cognitive Labor by Off
  • loading
  • The Overall Plan of the Lectures
  • Endurance, Perdurance, and "the Same Thing Again"
  • The Real Problem With Neo
  • Lockeanism
  • The Moral Problem With the Appeal to Neo
  • Lockeanism
  • Are we Worms?
  • Are We stages?
  • The Unhelpfulness of Reference Magnetism
  • Only Souls can Save us
  • Questions and Replies
  • Addendum: From Corpse Snatching to Identity Voluntarism
  • Corpse Snatching
  • Zimmer
  • Man's Way Out
  • Is This Christianity?
  • The Metaphysical Objection
  • Revelation and the Nature of Bodies
  • The Bone Known as Luz
  • Resurrection by Replay From Origins
  • Identity Mysticism
  • A Reply and a Response
  • Identity Voluntarism, The Last Temptation
  • A Body Can't get There From Here
  • Chapter 2. On the Impossibility of My Own Death
  • The Faith Threatening Character of Creedal Religion
  • What do we know Soul?
  • Absence of Evidence
  • The Sobering Verdict
  • The One at the Center
  • The Arena
  • Lichtenberg Vindicated
  • On Discovering that "You" don't Exist
  • on Being Me
  • Calm Down!
  • Mere Facts Of Identity
  • Feats Of Auto Alienation
  • Am I Now Contingently Johnston?
  • Some Thing I (Almost) Always know
  • What is Death?
  • Johnston's Death and My Death
  • What Really Matters In Survival?
  • Self Identity Versus Personal Identity
  • A Merely Intentional Object
  • Presence And The Self
  • The Impossibility of My Ownmost Death
  • Off Loading Again
  • An Inner Substance?
  • A False Presup
  • Position Of "My Ownmost Death"
  • The Retreat To The Human Being
  • The Irrelevance Of Substantial Selves
  • On Having No Self
  • Summary Of An Argument
  • Questions And Replies
  • Addendum: The Arena, The Horizon, And the Limits Of The World.
  • Chapter 3. From Anatta to Agape
  • Basic De Se Reasons
  • "I" Thought
  • Not Ambiguity But Synecdoche
  • Two Kinds of Rigidity
  • Three Responses to The Paradox Of Auto
  • Alienation
  • An Available Self
  • Identity is Always "Strict"
  • "I* Denotes A Self
  • Have We Built Too much Into "I"
  • Use?
  • The Concept of The Self Versus The Metaphysics of The Self
  • The Proviso: An Alternative To Offloading
  • Tracing Selves Versus Tracing Neo
  • Lockean Persons
  • Do We Trace Selves Or Trace Persons?
  • Resurrection Again
  • A Comparison With Thomas
  • Self As Determined By Consciouness, But The Bed Not The Stream
  • Divine Justice And The Self
  • The "Constitution View"
  • Resurrected Selves?
  • Consciounesses?
  • Deferring To The Victim Of Hallucination
  • The Vanishing Importance of the Self
  • Giving up on the Self
  • Is the Birth of Others as Good as Rebirth?
  • The Incoherence of Non
  • Derivative De Se Reasons for Action
  • A summary of the Foregoing
  • Questions and Replies.
  • Chapter 4. What is found at the Center?
  • How did a Human Being get to be here?
  • Other Narratives: The Hibernators
  • Still another Narrative: The Teletransporters
  • Wrong in Itself?
  • The Evenhanded Treatment
  • is Relativism about personal identity Coherent?
  • Personhood and Personality
  • "Reincarnation" Before Death
  • The "Forensic" Importance of Personality
  • What is Invariant
  • The Radical Reversal
  • The Identity
  • Determining Disposition
  • The Solution to our Problems
  • A False Sense of our Essence
  • Refiguring one's Basic Dispositions
  • Persons are Protean
  • Another Route to the Conclusion
  • Is The Protean
  • Another Route to the Conclusion
  • is the Persistence of Individual Personalities Response Dependent?
  • The Other World as an Ethical Epiphenomenon
  • A Summary and a Bridge to the Last Lecture
  • the lLfe to Come
  • Questions and Replies
  • Chapter 5. A New Refutation of Death
  • A Comparison with Parfit
  • Parfit's New Criterion
  • So Death is Something to us
  • on Being Higher
  • Order
  • The Clone
  • the Phoenix
  • How Could a Mere Bird Survive as the Phoenix Does?
  • Teleporters Often "Misfire"
  • Policing the Dispositions
  • the Point of the Allegory
  • What is a Good Will?
  • Is Goodness Bounded?
  • The Dispositions of the Good
  • How Does "I" Work, If we are Protean?
  • Self Ownership and the Interests of the Good
  • Are we Good Enough?
  • Who has a Good Will?
  • A Comparison With Schopenhauer
  • The Mistake in Tristan Und Isolde
  • Two Problems With Kantian Vedantism
  • This World, Not the Other World
  • Perpetual Return
  • The Interests of the Good
  • Reconsidering the Threat of Death
  • Questions and Replies
  • Index