argument from consciousness

Swinburne’s modal argument for the existence of the soul

By Agnieszka Rostalska and Rafal Urbaniak Abstract & Introduction: Richard Swinburne (Swinburne and Shoemaker 1984; Swinburne 1986) argues that human beings currently alive have non–bodily immaterial parts called souls. In his main argument in support of this conclusion (modal argument),roughly speaking, from the assumption that it is logically possible that a human being survives the Swinburne’s modal argument for the existence of the soul