Origin of the Soul

Joshua R. Farris Rev., Ph.D, is a Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellow and Visiting Researcher at the Ruhr Universität Bochum. He is the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Idealism and Immaterialism.Joanna Leidenhag, PhD is Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy at the University of Leeds. She is the author of Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation (2021), and co-author of Science-Engaged Theology (Cambridge Elements, 2023).

• ForewordCharles TaliaferroIntroducing the Origin of the SoulJoshua R Farris1 Creationist-Dualism: Theistic neo-CartesianismJoshua R Farris2 Theistic Quantum-Informational Idealism and the Soul Sub Specie AeternitatisBruce L Gordon3 Panpsychist-Traducianism: Souls as Fundamental and CombinedJoanna Leidenhag4 The Emergence of SoulsWilliam Hasker5 A Hylemorphist View: Neither Creationism nor TraducianismJ.T. Turner, Jr.AfterwordPeter van Inwagen