
In My Ever After
Immortality and Its Critics
Robert Geis(Author)
University Press of America
Published on 26. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7618-5265-0 (ISBN)
Description
In My Ever After is not a mass media style "general readership" book on immortality; rather, it is an argument against a current school -- neurophilosophy's virtual equation of consciousness and the world. Without exposing the equation's weaknesses, the question of immortality, Geis argues, is moot. Part I identifies many epistemic and scientific grounds for a real world outside consciousness and self-refutational flaws in quantum physics. It employs the phenomenological method to situate "consciousness" and "other" in their relations. Part II sets forth why consciousness cannot be electrical in origin, and then how partibility and subjectivity, in tandem with the power of conceptualization, evince reasons for accepting immortal consciousness as a condition of all human awareness. A discussion of why pharmacologic explanations for the OBE and NDE are wanting, plus neurologic arguments for memory's non-localizability, and how animal sentience adds to philosophic conviction coordinate with Scripture on animal existence beyond the grave, concludes the argument.
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It must be said that Robert Geis's extensive knowledge of contemporary neurobiology is coupled with a remarkable command of the history of philosophy. * Review of Metaphysics *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
396 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-5265-0 (9780761852650)
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Person
Robert Geis has previously published philosophical and theological works on personal immortality, sexual ethics, and papal infallibility. He is a Prelate Protocyncellus in the Eastern Orthodox Catholic rite.
Content
Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 I. More Than Consciousness
Chapter 3 Quantum Theory and Realities of Distinction
Chapter 4 Methodology
Chapter 5 Consciousness
Chapter 6 Other
Chapter 7 Color and Objectification
Chapter 8 The Extralinguistic Object
Part 9 II. Consciousness Immortal
Chapter 10 Disintegration and Partibility
Chapter 11 Death and Purpose
Chapter 12 Indivisible Sensation and "Zombie" Theory
Chapter 13 Coherence, Percept, Qualia
Chapter 14 Other Difficulties for Neurophilosophy
Chapter 15 Conceptualization, Memory, Immateriality
Chapter 16 Anecdotal or Evidential?
Chapter 17 Sentient Immortality
Chapter 18 Another World
Chapter 19 Notes
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author
Part 2 I. More Than Consciousness
Chapter 3 Quantum Theory and Realities of Distinction
Chapter 4 Methodology
Chapter 5 Consciousness
Chapter 6 Other
Chapter 7 Color and Objectification
Chapter 8 The Extralinguistic Object
Part 9 II. Consciousness Immortal
Chapter 10 Disintegration and Partibility
Chapter 11 Death and Purpose
Chapter 12 Indivisible Sensation and "Zombie" Theory
Chapter 13 Coherence, Percept, Qualia
Chapter 14 Other Difficulties for Neurophilosophy
Chapter 15 Conceptualization, Memory, Immateriality
Chapter 16 Anecdotal or Evidential?
Chapter 17 Sentient Immortality
Chapter 18 Another World
Chapter 19 Notes
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author