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Surviving Death (Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series) by Mark Johnston Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-691-13012-4 / 0691130124 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13012-5 / 9780691130125 In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense of the importance of goodness. The threat can be met if there is, as Socrates said, "someth |