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8IntroductionIn Jonathan J. Loose, Angus John Louis Menuge & J. P. Moreland (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, Wiley-blackwell. 2018.Substance dualism is compatible not only with Cartesian dualism but also with a number of nonCartesian alternatives, including several varieties of Thomistic dualism, William Hasker's emergent subject dualism, and the holistic anthropology of E. J. Lowe. Due to recent developments within the philosophy of mind, a renewed interest in historical and contemporary theories of the soul, and a more careful evaluation of what does and does not follow from neuroscience, substance dualism is back on the …Read more
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351No Hope in the Dark: Problems for four-dimensionalismEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (3): 31-47. 2019.Whether or not it is coherent to place hope in a future life beyond the grave has become a central question in the larger debate about whether a materialist view of human persons can accommodate Christian belief. Hud Hudson defends a four-dimensional account of resurrection in order to avoid persistent difficulties experienced by three-dimensionalist animalism. I present two difficulties unique to Hudson’s view. The first problem of counterpart hope is a manifestation of a general weakness of fo…Read more
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24The Constitution ViewPhilosophia Christi 20 (1): 73-81. 2018.Lynne Rudder Baker’s work was driven by commitments to quasi-naturalist materialism and the ontological distinctiveness of human persons. The incompatibility of these commitments is apparent in her constitution view. Baker's “Not-so-simple Simple View” of personal identity is inferior to the Simple View traditionally associated with substance dualism since CV’s underlying account of persons is vacuous. It also entails a dilemma: either indeterminate identity or the problem of the many. Finally, …Read more
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22Introduction to Symposium on Dualism and PhysicalismPhilosophia Christi 20 (1): 7-11. 2018.Routinely dismissed as a defeated position, substance dualism has seen a resurgence. This is partly due to a persistent failure of reductive physicalism to capture mental phenomena and to the instability of nonreductive alternatives. But it is also due to the return of the subject to center stage in the philosophy of mind and to the rich diversity of historical and contemporary theories of the soul. It is therefore time for a serious reevaluation of the merits of substance dualism by both dualis…Read more
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Hope for Christian Materialism? Problems of Too Many ThinkersIn R. Keith Loftin & Joshua R. Farris (eds.), Christian Physicalism?: Philosophical Theological Criticisms, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 351-370. 2017.
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Christian Materialism and Christian Ethics: Moral Debt and an Ethic of LifeIn R. Keith Loftin & Joshua R. Farris (eds.), Christian Physicalism?: Philosophical Theological Criticisms, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 351-370. 2017.
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5Materialism Most Miserable: The Prospects for Dualist and Physicalist Accounts of ResurrectionIn Jonathan J. Loose, Angus John Louis Menuge & J. P. Moreland (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 470-487. 2018.Stephen Davis's detailed assessment of the doctrine of the general resurrection suggests that it is the claim that those who have died will persist into a subsequent, embodied life by means of a divine miracle. The dualist's account of resurrection depends on the possibility that the identity of a person over time is preserved by the persistence of a simple immaterial substance with no necessary connection to a particular physical or psychological career. This chapter argues that the seemingly p…Read more
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130The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2018.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…Read more
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39Constitution and the Falling ElevatorPhilosophia Christi 14 (2): 439-449. 2012.Ontological dualism is energetically resisted by a range of Christian scholars including philosophers such as Baker and Corcoran who defend accounts of human persons based on material constitution. Whilst Baker’s view fails to account for diachronic identity, Corcoran’s account of life after death makes use of Zimmerman’s problematic “Falling Elevator Model.” It is argued that Zimmerman’s recent reassessment of the model overestimates its value for materialists. In fact, the model generates eith…Read more
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75The Metaphysics of Constitution and Accounts of the ResurrectionPhilosophy Compass 8 (9): 857-865. 2013.Some Christian materialists have argued for the possibility of resurrection given that persons are constituted by bodies, and constitution is not identity. Baker's constitutionist view claims superiority over animalist alternatives but offers only circular accounts of both personal identity over time and personhood. Corcoran's alternative approaches these questions differently but makes use of Zimmerman's ‘Falling Elevator Model’ of resurrection, which is rendered incoherent by its reliance on c…Read more
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17Body, Soul and Human Life. By Joel Green. Pp. xviii, 219, Grand Rapids, MI, Baker Academic, 2008, $11.00 (review)Heythrop Journal 53 (5): 875-877. 2012.