Philosopher Refutes Common Argument Against the Afterlife

As is so often the case with atheist arguments, there can be as much blind faith in them as in many theistic claims

William F. Vallicella had an interesting post on his blog Philosophy in Progress on “mortalism,” the doctrine that when the body dies the “soul” or mind dies as well. As I’ve written elsewhere, sometimes Mortalism goes by the name of animalism, that we are simply animals and therefore when our bodies die so does whatever it is within us that makes us “u…