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The Myth of an Afterlife The Myth of an Afterlife The Case against Life after Death Edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2015byMichaelMartinandKeithAugustine Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Themythofanafterlife:thecaseagainstlifeafterdeath/[editedby]MichaelMartinandKeith Augustine. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8108-8677-3(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-0-8108-8678-0(ebook) 1.Futurelife.I.Martin,Michael,1932February3-editor. BL535.M982015 129—dc23 2014039697 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ToEdwardTabash Ifwelongtobelievethatthestarsriseandsetforus,thatwearethereason thereisaUniverse,doessciencedousadisserviceindeflatingourconceits? —CarlSagan,TheDemon-HauntedWorld ScienceasaCandleintheDark(1995) Contents Foreword:OntheOriginofAfterlifeBeliefsbyMeansofMemetic Selection xiii SteveStewart-Williams Preface xxvii 1 Introduction 1 KeithAugustine PartI:EmpiricalArgumentsforAnnihilation 49 2 DeadasaDoornail:Souls,Brains,andSurvival 53 MattMcCormick 3 ExplainingPersonality:SoulTheoryversusBehaviorGenetics 69 JeanMercer 4 DissolutionintoDeath:TheMind’sLastSymptomsIndicate Annihilation 83 DavidWeisman 5 TheArgumentfromBrainDamageVindicated 105 RoccoJ.GennaroandYonatanI.Fishman 6 NoMentalLifeafterBrainDeath:TheArgumentfromthe NeuralLocalizationofMentalFunctions 135 GualtieroPiccininiandSonyaBahar 7 TheNeuralSubstrateofEmotionsandEmotionalProcessing 171 CarlosJ.Álvarez 8 Brain,Language,andSurvivalafterDeath 183 TerenceHines ix

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Because every single one of us will die, most of us would like to know what—if anything—awaits us afterward, not to mention the fate of lost loved ones. Given the nearly universal vested interest in deciding this question in favor of an afterlife, it is no surprise that the vast majority of book
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The Myth of an Afterlife The Myth of an Afterlife The Case against Life after Death Edited by Michael Martin and Keith Augustine ROWMAN&LITTLEFIELD Lanham•Boulder•NewYork•London PublishedbyRowman&Littlefield AwhollyownedsubsidiaryofTheRowman&LittlefieldPublishingGroup,Inc. 4501ForbesBoulevard,Suite200,Lanham,Maryland20706 www.rowman.com UnitA,WhitacreMews,26-34StannaryStreet,LondonSE114AB Copyright©2015byMichaelMartinandKeithAugustine Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedinanyformorbyany electronicormechanicalmeans,includinginformationstorageandretrievalsystems, withoutwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher,exceptbyareviewerwhomayquote passagesinareview. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationInformationAvailable LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Themythofanafterlife:thecaseagainstlifeafterdeath/[editedby]MichaelMartinandKeith Augustine. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8108-8677-3(cloth:alk.paper)—ISBN978-0-8108-8678-0(ebook) 1.Futurelife.I.Martin,Michael,1932February3-editor. BL535.M982015 129—dc23 2014039697 TMThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstheminimumrequirementsofAmerican NationalStandardforInformationSciencesPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibrary Materials,ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ToEdwardTabash Ifwelongtobelievethatthestarsriseandsetforus,thatwearethereason thereisaUniverse,doessciencedousadisserviceindeflatingourconceits? —CarlSagan,TheDemon-HauntedWorld ScienceasaCandleintheDark(1995) Contents Foreword:OntheOriginofAfterlifeBeliefsbyMeansofMemetic Selection xiii SteveStewart-Williams Preface xxvii 1 Introduction 1 KeithAugustine PartI:EmpiricalArgumentsforAnnihilation 49 2 DeadasaDoornail:Souls,Brains,andSurvival 53 MattMcCormick 3 ExplainingPersonality:SoulTheoryversusBehaviorGenetics 69 JeanMercer 4 DissolutionintoDeath:TheMind’sLastSymptomsIndicate Annihilation 83 DavidWeisman 5 TheArgumentfromBrainDamageVindicated 105 RoccoJ.GennaroandYonatanI.Fishman 6 NoMentalLifeafterBrainDeath:TheArgumentfromthe NeuralLocalizationofMentalFunctions 135 GualtieroPiccininiandSonyaBahar 7 TheNeuralSubstrateofEmotionsandEmotionalProcessing 171 CarlosJ.Álvarez 8 Brain,Language,andSurvivalafterDeath 183 TerenceHines ix

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