The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism

A groundbreaking collection of contemporary essays from leading international scholars that provides a balanced and expert account of the resurgent debate about substance dualism and its physicalist alternatives.  Substance dualism has for some time been dismissed as an archaic and defeated position in philosophy of mind, but in recent years, the topic has experienced a resurgence of scholarly interest and has been restored to contemporary prominence by a growing minority of philosophers prepared to interrogate the core principles upon which past objections and misunderstandings rest. As the first book of its kind to bring together a collection of contemporary writing from top proponents and critics in a pro–contra format, The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism captures this ongoing dialogue and sets the stage for rigorous and lively discourse around dualist and physicalist accounts of human persons in philosophy.  Chapters explore emergent, Thomistic, Cartesian, and other forms of substance dualism broadly conceived in dialogue with leading varieties of physicalism, including animalism, non–reductive physicalism, and constitution theory. Loose, Menuge, and Moreland pair essays from dualist advocates with astute criticism from physicalist opponents and vice versa, highlighting points of contrast for readers in thematic sections while showcasing today s leading minds engaged in direct debate. Taken together, essays provide nuanced paths of introduction for students, and capture the imagination of professional philosophers looking to expand their understanding of the subject. Skillfully curated and in touch with contemporary science as well as analytic theology, The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism strikes a measured balanced between advocacy and criticism, and is a first–rate resource for researchers, scholars, and students of philosophy, theology, and neuroscience. INDICE: Notes on Contributors ix .1 Introduction: Substance Dualism and Its Physicalist Rivals 1Jonathan J. Loose, Angus J. L. Menuge, and J. P. Moreland .2 Redressing Substance Dualism 22William G. Lycan .Part I. Articulating Substance Dualism 41 .3 Substance Dualism: A Defense 43Charles Taliaferro .Debating Emergent Dualism 61 .4 The Case for Emergent Dualism 62William Hasker .5 Against Emergent Dualism 73Brandon L. Rickabaugh .Debating Thomistic Dualism 87 .6 Aquinas on the Human Soul 88Edward Feser .7 In Defense of a Thomistic–like Dualism 102J. P. Moreland .8 A Critique of Thomistic Dualism 123William Hasker .Debating Cartesian Dualism 132 .9 Cartesian Substance Dualism 133Richard Swinburne .10 Against Cartesian Dualism 152Jaegwon Kim .11 Non–Cartesian Substance Dualism 168E. J. Lowe .Debating the Unity of Consciousness 183 .12 Substance Dualism and the Unity of Consciousness 184J. P. Moreland .13 Problems with Unity of Consciousness Arguments for Substance Dualism 208Tim Bayne .Debating Near–Death Experiences 226 .14 Evidential Near–Death Experiences 227Gary R. Habermas .15 The Phenomenology of Near–Death and Out–of–Body Experiences: No Heavenly Excursion for Soul 247Michael N. Marsh .16 Why Reject Substance Dualism? 267Ian Ravenscroft .Part II. Alternatives to Substance Dualism 283 .17 Why Should a Christian Embrace Materialism (about Human Persons)? 285Kevin Corcoran .Debating Animalism 296 .18 For Animalism 297Eric T. Olson .19 Against Animalism 307Stewart Goetz .Debating Nonreductive Physicalism 316 .20 For Nonreductive Physicalism 317Nancey Claire Murphy .21 Against Nonreductive Physicalism 328Joshua Rasmussen .Debating Constitutionalism 340 .22 Constitutionalism: Alternative to Substance Dualism 341Lynne Rudder Baker .23 Against Constitutionalism 351Ross Inman .Debating Emergent Individualism 368 .24 For Emergent Individualism 369Timothy O Connor .25 Against Emergent Individualism 377Robert C. Koons .26 Why Reject Christian Physicalism? 394Angus J. L. Menuge .Part III. Substance Dualism, Theology, and the Bible 411 .Debating Biblical Anthropology 412 .27 Biblical Anthropology is Holistic and Dualistic 413John W. Cooper .28 The Strange Case of the Vanishing Soul 427Joel B. Green .Debating the Incarnation 439 .29 Dualism Offers the Best Account of the Incarnation 440Luke Van Horn .30 The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation 452Trenton Merricks .Debating the Resurrection 469 .31 Materialism Most Miserable: The Prospects for Dualist and Physicalist Accounts of Resurrection 470Jonathan J. Loose .32 I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come 488Peter van Inwagen .Index 501

• ISBN: 978-1-119-37526-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 528
• Fecha Publicación: 18/04/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés