{"product_id":"the-myth-of-an-afterlife-michael-martin-9780810886773","title":"The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMyth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life after Death, \u003c\/i\u003eKeith Augustine and Michael Martin collect a series of contributions that provide a strong, comprehensive, and up-to-date casebook of the chief arguments against an afterlife all in one place. Divided into four separate sections, this essay collection opens the volume with a broad overview of the issues, as contributors consider the strongest available evidence as to whether or not we survive death--in particular the biological basis of all mental states and their grounding in brain activity that ceases to function at death. Next contributors consider a host of conceptual and empirical difficulties that confront the various ways of \"surviving\" death--from bodiless minds to bodily resurrection to any form of posthumous survival. Next essayists turn to internal inconsistencies between traditional theological conceptions of an afterlife--Heaven, Hell, karmic rebirth--and widely held ethical principles central to the belief systems undergirding those notions. In the final section, authors offer critical evaluations of the main types of evidence for an afterlife. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Martin, Keith Augustine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0810886774\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780810886773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.71w x 2.14d","brand":"Michael Martin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44172995592447,"sku":"9780810886773","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-myth-of-an-afterlife-michael-martin-9780810886773","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}