Surviving death /
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| Author / Creator: | Johnston, Mark, 1954- |
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| Imprint: | Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010. |
| Description: | ix, 393 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Carl G. Hempel lecture series Carl G. Hempel lecture series. |
| Subject: | Death. Future life. Death. Future life. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7990189 |
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
