Surviving Death

(Princeton University Press) The author argues that all existing theological conceptions of the afterlife are incoherent or against the workings of nature, and that there is no persisting self. Our identities are “Protean,” he writes, meaning that the good will survive death and live on in the onward rush of humankind. Johnston is the Walter Cerf Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, and the author of Saving God: Religion After Idolatry.