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    There is reason to think that a person's survival of deat... — Carmelics
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    There is reason to think that a person's survival of death is logically possible.

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    • 1.If there is reason to think that mind-body dualism is true, then there is reason to think that a person's survival of death is logically possible.
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    • 2.There is reason to think that mind-body dualism is true.
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    • 1.Mind-body dualism faces the interaction problem: if mind is non-physical, it cannot causally interact with the physical body (Princess Elisabeth, Ryle).
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    • 2.A theory that cannot coherently explain mind-body interaction during life provides no principled basis for personal identity after bodily death.
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    • 3.Without a coherent account of identity persistence, 'survival of death' names no logically determinate possibility.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist view entails that personal identity consists in physical and psychological continuity relations, not a further separately existing entity.
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    • 2.If no separately existing entity constitutes the person, then the concept of 'survival' after total physical discontinuity is logically empty rather than merely empirically uncertain.
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    If there is reason to think that mind-body dualism is true, then there is reason to think that a person’s survival of death is logically possible. But dualism has come upon hard times lately, and is widely regarded as being discredited. Whether or not this is warranted, dualism is undoubtedly subject to a number of objections, though these are not necessarily more severe than the difficulties that attend materialism (see the entry on dualism, also Koons and Bealer (eds.) 2010). For a positive case for dualism, see Loose, Menuge, & Moreland 2018 (The Blackwell Companion to Substance Duali...

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