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Neuroscience and the soul : the human person in philosophy, science, and theology / edited by Thomas M. Crisp, Steve L. Porter & Gregg A. Ten Elshof.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mind and body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Mind and body.
- Theological anthropology--Christianity.
- Theological anthropology.
- Human beings.
- Persons.
- Neurosciences.
- Soul.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016.
- Summary:
- It is a widely held belief that human beings are both body and soul, that our immaterial soul is distinct from our material body. But that traditional idea has been seriously questioned by much recent research in the brain sciences. In Neuroscience and the Soul fourteen distinguished scholars grapple with current debates about the existence and nature of the soul. Featuring a dialogical format, the book presents state-of-the-art work by leading philosophers and theologians -- some arguing for the existence of the soul, others arguing against -- and then puts those scholars into conversation with critics of their views. Bringing philosophy, theology, and neuroscience together in this way brings to light new nuances and significantly advances the ongoing debate over body and soul. - back of book.
- Contents:
- Part 1: Recent debate in philosophy about the mind-body problem. Do my quarks enjoy Beethoven? / William Hasker
- Materially-composed persons and the unity of consciousness : a reply to Hasker / Timothy O'Connor
- A rejoinder to O'Connor / William Hasker
- Why top-down causation does not provide adequate support for mental causation / J.P. Moreland / Emergence and causal powers : a reply to Moreland / Jason D. Runyan
- A rejoinder to Runyan / J.P. Moreland
- Part 2: Recent debate about the bearing of contemporary brain sciences on the mind-body problem. The impossibility of proving that human behavior is determined / Richard Swinburne
- On the import of the impossibility / Daniel Speak
- A rejoinder to Speak / Richard Swinburne
- Neuroscience and the human person / Kevin Corcoran, Kevin Sharpe
- Saving our souls from materialism / Eric LaRock, Robin Collins
- Saving materialism from a "souler" eclipse / Kevin Corcoran, Kevin Sharpe
- Neuroscience and the hard problem of consciousness / Erick LaRock
- Explaining consciousness / Kevin Corcoran, Kevin Sharpe
- From non-reductive physicalism to emergent subject dualism : a rejoinder to Corcoran and Sharpe / Erick Larock
- Part 3: Recent debate in theology about the mind-body problem. "Multidemensional monism" : a constructive theological proposal for the nature of human nature / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
- "Multidimensional monist" : a response to Kärkkäinen / Stewart Goetz
- A rejoinder to Goetz / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
- Whose interpretation? Which anthropology? Biblical hermeneutics, scientific naturalism, and the body-soul debate / John W. Cooper
- Whose interpretation? Which anthropology? Indeed : a response to John W. Cooper / Brian Lugioyo
- OK, but whose misunderstanding? A rejoinder to Brian Lugioyo / John W. Cooper.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780802874504
- 0802874509
- OCLC:
- 945357251
- Publisher Number:
- 99969701766
- 40026610953
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