Tag Archives: personal identity

“That weren’t no man!”

I just watched the pilot episode of Frank Darabont‘s zombie TV series The Walking Dead.  I loved the scene where the main character, after learning about the nature of zombies, goes back to the first zombie he met, a woman … Continue reading

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“Although I am not anxiously anticipating a zombie apocalypse, the need to readdress the relationship of body and soul has never been more important…”

In a recent blog post at the church and postmodern culture group blog Bryne Lewis Allport links the popularity of zombie movies with anxiety about cloning.  She notes that, for example, tissue cloned from stem cells is, in a sense, … Continue reading

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