Reading Questions
Paul Edwards - An Argument Against Survival

1. Edwards concedes for the sake of argument that dualism is true.  How does he define dualism?
2. Explain corporealism and why Edwards would assume it is false.
3. What is Hume's argument against immortality?
4. Edwards says J.J.C. Smart is a materialist.  What is a materialist?
5. How does the body-mind dependence argument rule out reincarnation and the replica-version of resurrectionism?
6. How are cases of Alzheimer's disease and irreversible comas related to the body-mind dependence argument?
7. Edwards describes a reply to the body-mind dependence argument that he calls the instrument theory.  Explain the instrument theory.
8. What response do Mill, Butler and Ewing make to the body-mind dependence argument?
9. What is Edwards' point in talking about the chocolate cream puff and the tennis ball?
10. What two objections does Edwards make to the reply that while the mind may depend on the body, the soul does not, and so even if the mind is annihilated with the body, the soul need not be?