The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

supposed to rule out cases like the one where B cuts the grass and tells C what she had done; then B gets amnesia, and C reports ...

with Brown's body. (But see 3b.) This reply is not available to proponents of immaterial souls, such as Plato or Descartes, who ...

itself a substantial form that accounts for the identity of a human being through an unembodied period. On the one hand, Aquinas ...

reassembled atoms would be a perfect duplicate of the manuscript, but they do not compose the very manuscript that had been dest ...

postmortem body even though the premortem body is corruptible and the postmortem body is incorruptible. However, I doubt that on ...

neither. Jones just does not survive until t2; at t2, there are two replicas of Jones, but Jones herself is no longer there. But ...

There is yet another view of human persons, which is compatible with the doctrine of resurrection. Suppose that human persons ar ...

“stuff” it is made of. It does not matter whether something is made of organic material or silicon or, in the case of God, no ma ...

If you ceased to have a first-person perspective, then you would cease to exist—even if your body was still there. Whether we ar ...

A human person at time t is a person (i.e., a being with a first-person perspective) that is constituted by a human body at t an ...

The constitution view can solve some outstanding conceptual problems about the doctrine of resurrection. The two elements of the ...

In the third place, resurrection is a miracle, a gift from God. The constitution view can use this feature to show that there is ...

person's repentance requires that she realize that she herself has offended, nothing lacking a first-person perspective could po ...

changes without ceasing to exist. For example, organisms would disappear at one place (on earth at the place where the death cer ...

WORKS CITED Aquinas, Thomas. 1945. Summa Theologica I. Questions 75–89. New York: Random House. Aristotle. 1941. De Anima. In Th ...

Baker, Lynne Rudder. 1995. “Need a Christian Be a Mind/Body Dualist?” Faith and Philosophy 12: 489–504. Castañeda, Hector-Neri. ...

have ample opportunities to develop face-to-face familiarity with practitioners of religions other than own. Often enough, we di ...

religion is not the sole cause of violent conflict in many of these cases. Unscrupulous politicians manipulate religious animosi ...

their explanations of certain forms of human behavior through reflecting on the better explanations offered by the other religio ...

argument is not decisive, Hume is surely getting at something important. We can see more clearly what it is if we examine the wa ...