TY - JOUR ID - 53963 TI - The Study of William James Views on the Possibility of Personal Immortality Based on Eugene Fontinell’s points of view JO - Philosophy of Religion JA - JPHT LA - en SN - 2008-7063 AU - Kashfi, Abdorrasool AU - karami, soraya AD - Associate Professor of Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies – Tehran University AD - M.A. in Philosophy of Religion- Tehran University Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 12 IS - 1 SP - 61 EP - 86 KW - Personal Immortality KW - self KW - Field Theory KW - Personal Identity DO - 10.22059/jpht.2015.53963 N2 - This article is concerned with Eugene Fontinell’s idea about personal immortality. Fontinell has offered a specific view about the possibility of afterlife, through employing the experimental method, William James’s pragmatic method, and also developing William James’s Field Theory and his psychological ideas about the “Self”.  Fontinell believes that it is possible to imagine immortality in a processive and relational world, according to William James’s views. Believing in immortality is not detached from our existence in this world, but it is being supported by our mundane lives. Fontinell is trying to offer a reasonable theory about personal immortality, without logical contradictions.  Thus, Fontinell’s theory about immortality is important because it has explained and justified the afterlife without being dualistic, and without ignoring the experiences; by doing so, he has weakened the experimentalists’ view against personal immortality UR - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_53963.html L1 - https://jpht.ut.ac.ir/article_53963_c462f64aa74f35ecfb6c24db98e0a1da.pdf ER -