Philosophical Reflections on Immortality

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  • 魂の不死性に関する哲学的考察
  • with Special Reference to the Survival Hypothesis
  • ～死後存続仮説に関する議論を中心に～

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<p>With the advancement of psychical research and parapsychology, the possibility of postmortem survival of consciousness has been debated by not just by researchers in the field but also prominent philosophers such as C.D. Broad and H.H. Price. Recently, Sudduth (2016) presented a very detailed philosophical examination of the long-lasting arguments within the framework of confirmation theory, which aims to provide a way to determine which one of competing hypotheses is the best account for the given evidence or when one hypothesis over another is supported by the evidence. He concluded that the arguments for the survival hypothesis are untenable by pointing out that the advocates of the survival hypothesis failed to notice the importance of various auxiliary hypotheses which are necessary to substantiate the hypothesis so that it will account for the relevant data, and that there is an alternative hypothesis whose existence weakens the relevant arguments. This paper critically examines Sudduth's (2016) analysis and by providing a new way of looking at the "auxiliary hypotheses," pointing out the problem of auxiliary hypotheses necessary for the alternative hypothesis, and also giving new pieces of evidence argues that the survival hypothesis is still the best explanation of the relevant data.</p>

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  • CRID
    1390283659833286016
  • NII Article ID
    130007772449
  • DOI
    10.20788/jmbs.28.1_1
  • ISSN
    24242314
    09182489
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    Allowed

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