Tiến Sĩ Robert Almeder, Giáo Sư Triết của Đại Học Đường Georgia, Giám Đốc Trung Tâm Kỹ Thuật của Đại Học này là tác giả của tác phẩm khảo luận về luân hồi "Evidence For Life After Death" "Bằng Chứng Về Đời Sống Sau Khi Chết". Ông cũng là thành viên của Viện Khoa Học Quốc Gia, đã được thưởng hai giải thưởng xuất sắc về Giáo Dục (Outstanding Educator of America Award) năm 1984, từng viết trên 50 bài khảo luận về triết học đăng tải trên các báo như Philosophy of Science, Synthese, The American Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophia, Erkentnis và The History of Philisophy Quarterly. Ông đã xuất bản 8 tác phẩm, trong đó có tác phẩm The Philosophy of Charles Pierce, và A Critical Introduction.
Ông đã dùng những chuyện có thật đã được phối kiểm để dẫn chứng trong cuốn "Evidence for Life After Death".
Robert F. Almeder (born December 11, 1939) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgia State University.[1] He is known in particular for his work on the philosophy of science, and has also written on the philosophy of mind, epistemology and ethics. He is the author of 24 books, including The Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce (1980), Death and Personal Survival (1992), Harmless Naturalism: The Limits of Science and the Nature of Philosophy (1998), Human Happiness and Morality (2000), and Truth and Skepticism (2010).
Awards
Outstanding Educator of America Award (1973)
Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor Award for College of Arts and Sciences (1984) and for University (1995)
Almeder served as the editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly (1998–2003), and co-edited the annual Biomedical Ethics Reviews (1983–2004). He was the inaugural McCullough Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Hamilton College in New York (2005–2007), where he taught courses on human rights, biomedical ethics and the law.
Almeder was strongly influenced by Charles Sanders Peirce, Ian Stevenson, and W.O. Quine, and subscribes to Cartesian dualism, broadly rejecting scientism and materialism. Stevenson's reincarnation research work on children who claimed to remember past lives convinced Almeder that minds are irreducible to brain states. He has argued in several papers and in his Beyond Death: The Evidence for Life After Death (1992) that Stevenson's critics, most notably the philosopher Paul Edwards, have misunderstood the nature of Stevenson's work.[5]