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Surviving Death (Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series) by Mark Johnston Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2011 ISBN-10: 0-691-13013-2 / 0691130132 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13013-2 / 9780691130132 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 |