- UCR Department of Philosophy

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vitae est. Mauris placerat eleifend.The Immortality Project
The Immortality Project
at the Culver Center
in downtown Riverside, CA
, a $5 million grant housed in the Department of Philosophy at the University
of California, Riverside, and funded by the John Templeton Foundation, concludes with this Capstone Conference to
report on the past three years of scientific, philosophical and theological research into issues related to immortality.
Science
• Shahar Arzy - The Life-Review Experience: phenomenological, psychological and neuroscientific
perspectives
• Melanie Nyhof, Kelly James Clark - Afterlife
beliefs and their cognitive mechanisms among the
Chinese: Past and Present
• Kurt Gray - The Immortality of Morality
• Bruce Hood - Mind-Body Dualism as a Natural
Intuition that Supports Afterlife Beliefs
• Daniel Martinez, Diane Bridge - Identifying and
Characterizing the Genes of Immortality in Hydra
• Shaun Nichols, Jay Garfield - Death and the Self
• Sam Parnia - A Multi-Centre Pilot Study of the
Mind, Brain, Consciousness and Near Death Experiences during Cardiac Arrest
Philosophy & Theology
• Yuval Avnur - An Epistemology for the
Afterlife
• Timothy Pawl, Kevin Tiimpe - Exploring the
Interim State
• Christopher Belshaw - Immortality, Memory
and Imagination
• Mark Rowlands - Meaning in Mortal and
Immortal Lives
• Stephan Blatti - The Dying Animal
• Eric Schwitzgebel - Speculative Fiction on
the Philosophy of Immortality
• Ben Bradley - Death, Rational Emotion, and
Meaningfulness
• Aaron Segal - Why Live Forever
• Stephen Burwood - The Philosophy & Theology of Immortality: Trans-human Immortality
• Meghan Sullivan - Time Bias and Immortality
• Ryan Byerly - The Paradise Project
• Patrick Todd - Free Will and Entering
“Heaven”: What Would Heaven Be, Were It
To Be
• John Davis - Forever for Now: should we
slow human aging?
• Andrew Eshleman - The Afterlife: Beyond
Belief
• Christina Van Dyke - (Ever) Lasting Happiness? Immortality and the Afterlife
• Luca Ferrero - Immortality, Vulnerability, and
Agency
• Ajume Wingo, Dan Demetriou - Civic Immortality: Honoring Liberal Heroics in Africa
and Abroad
• Jeff Greenberg - Religious and Scientific Paths to
Immortality: A Clash of Cultures?
• Cody Gilmore - Personal Time and Personal
Ontology: Persistence, Consciousness, Time
Travel, Death
• Mark Wrathall - The Phenomenology of
Immortality
• Mel Slater, Maria V. Sanchez-Vives - Modeling
Immortality in Immersive Virtual Reality
• Yitzhak Melamed, Oded Schecter - Spinoza
on the Imaginary Nature of Death
• Philip Ziegler - Eternal God, Eternal LifeTheological Investigations into the Concept of
Immortality
• Carl Mosser - More Than Immortality: Human Nature Elevated and Defined
• Mikel Burley - Immortality and Human Finitude: A Philosophical and Theological Study
• Ann Taves, Tamsin Cleo Marie German - The
Role of Near-Death Experiences in the Emergence
of a Movement: A Quasi-Experimental Field Study
of IANDS
Public Session: John Fischer and Ben Mitchell-Yellin on
Near-Death Experiences: Understanding Different Visions of the Afterlife 5/29/15 from 7:30-9:00 PM
reservation required at www.sptimmortalityproject.com
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