The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism

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by  Jonathan J. Loose

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THE BLACKWELL
COMPANION TO
SUBSTANCE DUALISM
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Contents
NotesonContributors ix
1 Introduction:SubstanceDualismandItsPhysicalistRivals 1
JonathanJ.Loose,AngusJ.L.Menuge,andJ.P.Moreland
2 RedressingSubstanceDualism 22
WilliamG.Lycan
PartI.ArticulatingSubstanceDualism 41
3 SubstanceDualism:ADefense 43
CharlesTaliaferro
DebatingEmergentDualism 61
4 TheCaseforEmergentDualism 62
WilliamHasker
5 AgainstEmergentDualism 73
BrandonL.Rickabaugh
DebatingThomisticDualism 87
6 AquinasontheHumanSoul 88
EdwardFeser
7 InDefenseofaThomistic-likeDualism 102
J.P.Moreland
8 ACritiqueofThomisticDualism 123
WilliamHasker
DebatingCartesianDualism 132
9 CartesianSubstanceDualism 133
RichardSwinburne
vi CONTENTS
10 AgainstCartesianDualism 152
JaegwonKim
11 Non-CartesianSubstanceDualism 168
E.J.Lowe
DebatingtheUnityofConsciousness 183
12 SubstanceDualismandtheUnityofConsciousness 184
J.P.Moreland
13 ProblemswithUnityofConsciousnessArgumentsforSubstanceDualism 208
TimBayne
DebatingNear-DeathExperiences 226
14 EvidentialNear-DeathExperiences 227
GaryR.Habermas
15 ThePhenomenologyofNear-DeathandOut-of-BodyExperiences:
NoHeavenlyExcursionfor“Soul” 247
MichaelN.Marsh
16 WhyRejectSubstanceDualism? 267
IanRavenscroft
PartII.AlternativestoSubstanceDualism 283
17 WhyShouldaChristianEmbraceMaterialism(aboutHumanPersons)? 285
KevinCorcoran
DebatingAnimalism 296
18 ForAnimalism 297
EricT.Olson
19 AgainstAnimalism 307
StewartGoetz
DebatingNonreductivePhysicalism 316
20 ForNonreductivePhysicalism 317
NanceyClaireMurphy
21 AgainstNonreductivePhysicalism 328
JoshuaRasmussen
DebatingConstitutionalism 340
22 Constitutionalism:AlternativetoSubstanceDualism 341
LynneRudderBaker
23 AgainstConstitutionalism 351
RossInman
CONTENTS vii
DebatingEmergentIndividualism 368
24 ForEmergentIndividualism 369
TimothyO’Connor
25 AgainstEmergentIndividualism 377
RobertC.Koons
26 WhyRejectChristianPhysicalism? 394
AngusJ.L.Menuge
PartIII.SubstanceDualism,Theology,andtheBible 411
DebatingBiblicalAnthropology 412
27 BiblicalAnthropologyisHolisticandDualistic 413
JohnW.Cooper
28 TheStrangeCaseoftheVanishingSoul 427
JoelB.Green
DebatingtheIncarnation 439
29 DualismOfferstheBestAccountoftheIncarnation 440
LukeVanHorn
30 TheWordMadeFlesh:Dualism,Physicalism,andtheIncarnation 452
TrentonMerricks
DebatingtheResurrection 469
31 MaterialismMostMiserable:TheProspectsforDualistandPhysicalist
AccountsofResurrection 470
JonathanJ.Loose
32 ILookfortheResurrectionoftheDeadandtheLifeoftheWorldtoCome 488
PetervanInwagen
Index 501

Notes on Contributors
LynneRudderBakerisProfessorofPhilosophyEmeritus(formerlydistinguishedprofes­
sor) atthe Universityof Massachusetts Amherstand isthe authorofNaturalism and the
First-Person Perspective (Oxford, 2013), The Metaphysics of Everyday Life (Cambridge,
2007),PersonsandBodies(Cambridge,2000),ExplainingAttitudes(Cambridge,1995),and
Saving Belief (Princeton, 1987), as well as numerous articles and book chapters in the
philosophyofmind,metaphysics,andphilosophicaltheology.Shealsohasspokenwidelyin
over twenty countries on five continents. See http://people.umass.edu/lrb.
TimBayneisaphilosopherofmindandcognitivescience,withaparticularinterestinthe
nature of consciousness. He is currently professor of philosophy at Monash University
(Melbourne),havingtaughtpreviouslyatMacquarieUniversity,theUniversityofWestern
Ontario,theUniversity ofManchester, andthe Universityof Oxford. He isthe author of
TheUnityofConsciousness(2010)andThought:AVeryShortIntroduction(2013);andan
editorofDelusionandSelf-Deception(PsychologyPress,2008),TheOxfordCompanionto
Consciousness (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Cognitive Phenomenology (Oxford
University Press, 2011).
JohnW.CoopertaughtphilosophyatCalvinCollegeandsince1985hasbeenprofessorof
philosophicaltheologyatCalvinTheologicalSeminary.AmonghispublicationsareBody,
Soul and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate (Eerd­
mans, 1989) and Panentheism – The Other God of the Philosophers: From Plato to the
Present (Baker Academic, 2006).
KevinCorcoranisProfessorofPhilosophyatCalvinCollegeinGrandRapids,Michigan.
He is the author or editor of three books – Soul, Body and Survival (Cornell University
Press,2001),RethinkingHumanNature(BakerAcademic,2006)andChurchinthePresent
Tense (Baker, 2011)—as well as many articles, mostly dealing with the metaphysics of
humannatureandthephilosophyofmind.In2012,hewasincludedinPrincetonReview’s
The Best 300 Professors.
EdwardFeserisAssociateProfessorofPhilosophyatPasadenaCityCollegeinPasadena,
California. His current research interests are in metaphysics and philosophy of nature,
x NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
natural theology, and philosophical psychology. His books include Philosophy of Mind
(Oneworld,2013),Aquinas(BolindaAudio,2012),ScholasticMetaphysics:AContemporary
Introduction (Editiones Scholasticae, 2014), and Neo-Scholastic Essays (St. Augustine’s
Press, 2015).
Stewart Goetz is the Ross Frederick Wicks Distinguished Professor in philosophy and
religion at Ursinus College. He has written extensively on the freedom of choice and the
nature of the self. His books include Naturalism (co-authored with Charles Taliaferro,
Eerdmans, 2008), Freedom, Teleology, and Evil (Continuum, 2008), The Soul Hypothesis
(co-edited with Mark Baker, Continuum, 2011), A Brief History of the Soul (co-authored
withCharlesTaliaferro,WileyBlackwell,2011),ThePurposeofLife:ATheisticPerspective
(Continuum,2012),TheRoutledgeCompaniontoTheism(coeditedwithCharlesTaliaferro
and Victoria Harrison, Routledge, 2012), A Philosophical Walking Tour with C. S. Lewis:
WhyItDidNotIncludeRome(Bloomsbury,2014),andGodandMeaning(co-editedwith
Joshua Seachris; Bloomsbury, 2016). Goetz is the senior editor of the Bloomsbury book
series Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy and Religion and co-senior editor of the forth­
coming Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion.
JoelB.Green(PhD,Aberdeen)isProvostandProfessorofNewTestamentinterpretation
at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has written or edited more than forty-five books,
including Body, Soul, and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible (Baker
Academic, 2008) and What About the Soul? Neuroscience and Christian Anthropology
(AbingdonPress,2004).HeistheeditoroftheNewInternationalCommentaryontheNew
Testament series (Eerdmans), editor-in-chief of the Journal of Theological Interpretation,
andservesontheeditorialboardsofTheologyandScienceandScienceandChristianBelief.
Gary R. Habermas (PhD, Michigan State University) is the distinguished research
professorandchairofthePhilosophyDepartmentatLibertyUniversity.Hehasauthored
oreditedoverfortybooks(morethantwentyoftheseonJesus’sresurrection).Besidesthis
chief area of research, he haspublished many other items on near-death experiences, the
historical Jesus, religious doubt,and personal suffering.He has also published more than
seventychaptersorarticlesinotherbooks,plusapproximately150articlesinjournalsand
periodicals.Hehasbeenavisitingoradjunctprofessorat15differentgraduateschoolsand
seminaries(teachingaboutfiftycourses)intheUnitedStatesandabroad.Seehiswebsiteat
www.garyhabermas.com.
William Hasker (PhD, Edinburgh) is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Huntington
University,wherehetaughtfrom1966until2000.HewastheeditorofChristianScholar’s
Reviewfrom1985to1994,andtheeditorofFaithandPhilosophyfrom2000until2007.He
has contributed numerous articles to journals and reference works, and is the author of
Metaphysics (InterVarsity Press, 1983), God, Time, and Knowledge (Cornell University
Press,1989),TheEmergentSelf(CornellUniversityPress,1999),Providence,Evil,andthe
Openness of God (Routledge, 2004), The Triumph of God Over Evil (InterVarsity Press,
2008), and Metaphysics and the Tri-Personal God (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Ross Inman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological
SeminaryinFortWorth,Texas.Hisresearchtodatehasfocusedprimarilyonmetaphysics