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Animal Immortality and Philosophical Externalism.

by Natalia Doran

The idea that there are going to be animals in heaven is widely accepted, following the prophet Isaiah’s vision that involves animals, as well as an altered relationship between prey and predator species, “The wolf also shall dwell wit the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them,” (Isaiah 11:6)…

Natalia Doran

I was born in what was the USSR and was educated at the Moscow University of Linguistics. I am a private student of philosophy and theology, with special interests in classical philosophy (Neoplatonism in particular), integrated theology (“animal theology” in popular parlance), as well as modern philosophy of mind (in particular “the hard problem of consciousness” and the possible expansion of the concept of consciousness).

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