Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism

Jonathan J. Loose is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Psychology at Heythrop College, University of London. He completed work on this volume while also a visiting scholar at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Angus J. L. Menuge is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Concordia University Wisconsin and President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society. J. P. Moreland is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Biola University in La Mirada, California, where he has taught for 28 years. He has authored, edited, or contributed papers to over 95 books, including the Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (Wiley Blackwell, 2009), and has published over 90 articles in professional journals of philosophy and theology.

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• Notes on Contributors ix1 Introduction: Substance Dualism and Its Physicalist Rivals 1Jonathan J. Loose, Angus J. L. Menuge, and J. P. Moreland2 Redressing Substance Dualism 22William G. LycanPart I. Articulating Substance Dualism 413 Substance Dualism: A Defense 43Charles TaliaferroDebating Emergent Dualism 614 The Case for Emergent Dualism 62William Hasker5 Against Emergent Dualism 73Brandon L. RickabaughDebating Thomistic Dualism 876 Aquinas on the Human Soul 88Edward Feser7 In Defense of a Thomistic-like Dualism 102J. P. Moreland8 A Critique of Thomistic Dualism 123William HaskerDebating Cartesian Dualism 1329 Cartesian Substance Dualism 133Richard Swinburne10 Against Cartesian Dualism 152Jaegwon Kim11 Non-Cartesian Substance Dualism 168E. J. LoweDebating the Unity of Consciousness 18312 Substance Dualism and the Unity of Consciousness 184J. P. Moreland13 Problems with Unity of Consciousness Arguments for Substance Dualism 208Tim BayneDebating Near-Death Experiences 22614 Evidential Near-Death Experiences 227Gary R. Habermas15 The Phenomenology of Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences: No Heavenly Excursion for “Soul” 247Michael N. Marsh16 Why Reject Substance Dualism? 267Ian RavenscroftPart II. Alternatives to Substance Dualism 28317 Why Should a Christian Embrace Materialism (about Human Persons)? 285Kevin CorcoranDebating Animalism 29618 For Animalism 297Eric T. Olson19 Against Animalism 307Stewart GoetzDebating Nonreductive Physicalism 31620 For Nonreductive Physicalism 317Nancey Claire Murphy21 Against Nonreductive Physicalism 328Joshua RasmussenDebating Constitutionalism 34022 Constitutionalism: Alternative to Substance Dualism 341Lynne Rudder Baker23 Against Constitutionalism 351Ross InmanDebating Emergent Individualism 36824 For Emergent Individualism 369Timothy O’Connor25 Against Emergent Individualism 377Robert C. Koons26 Why Reject Christian Physicalism? 394Angus J. L. MenugePart III. Substance Dualism, Theology, and the Bible 411Debating Biblical Anthropology 41227 Biblical Anthropology is Holistic and Dualistic 413John W. Cooper28 The Strange Case of the Vanishing Soul 427Joel B. GreenDebating the Incarnation 43929 Dualism Offers the Best Account of the Incarnation 440Luke Van Horn30 The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation 452Trenton MerricksDebating the Resurrection 46931 Materialism Most Miserable: The Prospects for Dualist and Physicalist Accounts of Resurrection 470Jonathan J. Loose32 I Look for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to Come 488Peter van InwagenIndex 501