Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine
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- ~17,700 words · 84 passages
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- APAWilliam James. (n.d.). Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine. SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/william-james/human-immortality-two-supposed-objections-to-the-doctrine
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What it is about
Human Immortality (1898): a lecture on whether the brain produces the mind.
Context and history
James answers the objection that if thought depends on the brain, the brain's death ends thought. His way out: the brain might transmit consciousness rather than produce it, as glass transmits light. He does not assert it; he says the objection is not conclusive.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY AND INGERSOLL LECTURER FOR 1898 BOSTON AND NEW YORK* HOUGHTON, MIFFLIIsT AND COMPANY 15068 COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY WILLIAM JAMES ALL RIGHTS RESERVED W 5- 1898 of Co^ TWO COPIES RCCEIVED-THE INGERSOLL LECTURESHIP Extract from the will of Miss Caroline Haskell Ingersoll, who died in Keene, County of Cheshire, New Hampshire, Jan, 2b, i8gj. First. In carrying out the wishes of my late beloved father, George Goldthwait Ingersoll, as declared by him in his last will and testament, I give and bequeath to Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where my late father was graduated, and which he always held in love and honor, the sum of Five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a fund for the establishment of a Lectureship on a plan somewhat similar to that of the Dudleian lecture, that is — one lecture to be delivered each year, o
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