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Peter van Inwagen (/ v æ n ɪ n ˈ w ɑː ɡ ən / van in-WAH-ghən; born September 21, 1942) is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a research professor of philosophy at Duke University each spring. [2]
The Immortality of Writers is an Ancient Egyptian wisdom text likely to have been used as an instructional work in schools. It is recorded on the verso side of the Chester Beatty IV papyrus (BM 10684) held in the British Museum .
Chris Armstrong in the Marin Independent Journal wrote that the book is “a semi-political biography; it chronicles how transhumanism became an activist movement based on Mill Valley resident Zoltan Istvan’s popular U.S. presidential and California gubernatorial runs from 2014 to 2020.” [11] Peter Clarke at Merion West wrote that the book ...
Gone From My Sight", also known as the "Parable of Immortality" and "What Is Dying" is a poem (or prose poem) presumably written by the Rev. Luther F. Beecher (1813–1903), cousin of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. At least three publications credit the poem to Luther Beecher in printings shortly after his death in 1904. [1]
Immortality of the mind is sometimes accomplished by periodically moving it to a new physical body, transferring either just the consciousness as in A. E. van Vogt's 1948 novel The World of Null-A or transplanting the entire brain as in Michael G. Coney's 1974 novel Friends Come in Boxes; [13] [35] the new body is a clone of the original person ...
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (/ ˈ ɛ t ɪ ŋ ər /; December 4, 1918 [1] – July 23, 2011 [2]) was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality. [3] [4] Ettinger founded the Cryonics Institute [5] and the related Immortalist Society and until 2003 served as the ...
Frans Jozef Peter (F. Jos.) van den Branden (14 June 1837 – 22 March 1922) was a Belgian playwright, art historian, civil servant, educator and archivist. He wrote in the Dutch language. He wrote in the Dutch language.
Wolterstorff was born on January 21, 1932, [4] to Dutch emigrants in a small farming community in southwest Minnesota. [5] [6] After earning his BA in philosophy at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1953, he entered Harvard University, where he earned his MA and PhD in philosophy, completing his studies in 1956.