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Response to Editorial "Should IANDS Endorse a Post-Physicalist Worldview?": Maybe Keep the Original Statement But Add Something to It?

Description: Abstract: In this response, I suggest that the International Association for Near-Death Studies consider retaining their current statement of neutrality and add a sentence clarifying their stance regarding a post-physicalist worldview as well as their ongoing openness to dialog with authors representing any science-based worldview.
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Kelly, Edward F.
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Response to Editorial "Should IANDS Endorse a Post-Physicalist Worldview?": Why IANDS Should Not Endorse a Specific Worldview [Bush]

Description: Abstract: In this response I explain why I believe the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) should maintain its longstanding commitment to impartiality regarding positions on or interpretations of near-death experiences and related phenomena, declining to endorse post-physicalism or any particular worldview.
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Bush, Nancy Evans
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Response to Editorial "Should IANDS Endorse a Post-Physicalist Worldview?" [IONS]

Description: Abstract: In this brief response, we at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) offer our view of post-physicalism, and IONS president Thomas Brophy expresses his view that it makes sense for IANDS to endorse a post-physicalist worldview, which, he suggests, could also be called trans-physicalist.
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Brophy, Thomas
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Response to Editorial "Should IANDS Endorse a Post-Physicalist Worldview?" [Audette]

Description: Abstract: A sufficient body of empirical evidence exists to fully justify and enable IANDS to relinquish its neutrality position in a totally defensible manner, giving it a priceless opportunity to adopt and advance a spiritual interpretation of reality, one that could greatly enhance its relevance for the troubled times in which we live and allow it to serve as a powerful catalyst for a global spiritual awakening, consistent with its original founding ideals.
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Audette, John R.
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Rejoinder to Responses to Editorial "Should IANDS Endorse a Post-Physicalist Worldview?"

Description: Abstract: In this article, members of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) Academic and Research Committee (ARC) rejoin responses to Janice Holden's (2023) editorial, "Should IANDS Endorse a Post-Physicalist Worldview?" They identify key issues that seemed to emerge from the exchange and conclude with a carefully worded statement that they will bring to the IANDS Board of Directors for consideration to be adopted by the organization.
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner; Woollacott, Marjorie; Mays, Robert G. & Klaunig, Norman
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Book Review: The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism

Description: Review of a book titled "The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism" by philosophers B. Rickabaugh and J.P. Moreland providing an overview of the content. The book discusses various arguments for describing consciousness according to naturalistic physicalism vs. substance dualism (i.e., a physical body and an immaterial soul).
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Habermas, Gary
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Response to Editorial "Should IANDS Endorse a Post-Physicalist Worldview?": Balancing Perspectives: The Significance of Empirical Evidence in Scientific Inquiry

Description: Abstract: In this response, we explain why we believe it is premature for the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) to endorse a post-physicalist worldview.
Date: Summer 2023
Creator: Martial, Charlotte; Fritz, Pauline & Gosseries, Olivia
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