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In this engaging and comprehensive book, the philosopher Brooke Noel Moore provides a unique synthesis of the philosophical and parapsychological aspects of belief in life after death. He explains the various theories of personal survival after physical death, discusses the mind-brain relationship, personal identity, the possibility of disembodied existence, reidentification…

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The title of this book, Philosophical Possibilities Beyond Death, only partly reveals its focus. Its deeper purpose is to be found in the subtitle: Exploring the Evidence from Psychical Research.

Though the author, Prof. Brooke Moore, provides an excellent summary of the Western philosophical debates for and against an afterlife, it’s merely to set the stage for the main event: an in-depth analysis of the philosophical implications of afterlife-related extraordinary phenomena.

Moore, who is co-author of the standard book on critical thinking (now in its 13th edition!), considers the evidence from mediumship, apparitions, near-death and out-of-body experiences, reincarnation,…

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