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In Defence of Reincarnation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Charles B. Daniels
Affiliation:
University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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In ‘Reincarnation and Relativized Identity’1 J. J. MacIntosh argues that reincarnation is impossible. I wish to make a slightly backhanded defence of reincarnation by showing that MacIntosh's argument does not succeed. I do not follow his recipe for defence of reincarnation exactly:

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

References

1 Rel. Stud. xxv, 153–65.

2 Ibid. 155.

3 Ibid. 158.

4 Ibid. 159.

5 Ibid. 159–60.

6 I wish to acknowledge the University of Victoria President's Discretionary Fund for its support.