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Proponents of an afterlife would be better served by espo... — Carmelics

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Proponents of an afterlife would be better served by espousing some variety of mind-body dualism rather than materialism.

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It has not been shown conclusively that an identity-preserving materialist resurrection is impossible, but the difficulties are formidable.
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1.Mind-body dualism faces the interaction problem: if the soul is non-physical, it is deeply unclear how it causally affects the body.
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2.A dualist afterlife that cannot explain soul-body interaction during life offers no explanatory advantage over materialist resurrection accounts.
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3.Materialism avoids positing ontologically mysterious substances, satisfying parsimony principles that dualism violates.
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1.Peter van Inwagen's materialist resurrection model—God preserves the exact corpse and reconstitutes it—demonstrates a coherent physicalist afterlife framework.
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2.The difficulties facing materialist resurrection are no more formidable than the dualist's obligation to explain personal identity for a disembodied soul across time.
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It has not been shown conclusively that an identity-preserving materialist resurrection is impossible, but the difficulties, as outlined above, are formidable (Hasker 1999: 211–31). Proponents of an afterlife, it seems, would be better served if they were able to espouse some variety of mind-body dualism. This entry cannot undertake an assessment of the comparative merits of dualism and materialism. It is worth noting, however, that recent philosophy has seen an increased recognition in some quarters of the difficulties resulting from materialist views, and a corresponding interest in differen...

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