Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: It is not easy to be a materialist and yet believe that there is a way for human beings to survive death.Peter van Inwagen identifies the central obstacle the materialist faces: Namely, the need to posit appropriate "immanent-causal" connections between my body as it is at death and some living body elsewhere or elsewhen.I offer a proposal, consistent with van Inwagen's own materialist metaphysics, for making materialism compatible with the possibility of survival.
Source: Faith and Philosophy
Authors: Dean W. Zimmerman, The Society of Christian Philosophers
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1685306144