Near-Death Experiences

John Martin Fischer is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, where he has held a University of California President's Chair (2006-10). He was President of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division (2013-4). He was Project Leader of The Immortality Project (2012-15), sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation.Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam Houston State University. Previously, he was the Postdoctoral Fellow for the Immortality Project (2012-2015), sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation.

• PrefaceChapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Two Famous Near-Death ExperiencesChapter Three: When Exactly Do the Near-Death Experiences Take Place?Chapter Four: Must an Explanation of Near-Death Experiences Appeal to the Nonphysical?Chapter Five: Are Lucid Experiences Necessarily Accurate?Chapter Six: Near-Death Experiences in the BlindChapter Seven: Near-Death Experiences in Children and throughout the WorldChapter Eight: Why Expect Near-Death Experiences to be Explained by a Single Factor?Chapter Nine: Are Simpler Explanations More Likely to be True?Chapter Ten: Near-Death Experiences, Transformation, and the AfterlifeChapter Eleven: A Strategy for Explaining Near-Death ExperiencesChapter Twelve: Confirmation Bias: We Believe What We Want to BelieveChapter Thirteen: Awe, Wonder, and HopeReferences

John Martin Fischer and Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin's book is the gold standard for philosophical work aimed at a popular audience. Fischer and Mitchell-Yellin make nuanced, philosophically interesting arguments about a topic largely unexplored by academic philosophers and manage to do so in a way that is accessible to any intellectually curious reader.