Soul, body, and survival : essays on the metaphysics of human persons

How are soul and body related to one another? Are human beings immaterial souls, or complex physical organisms? Will we survive the death of our bodies? Does only the dualist view allow the possibility of life after death? This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the metaphysics of human nature and the possibility of post-mortem survival. Kevin Corcoran's collection, Soul, Body, and Survival , includes chapters from those who embrace traditional soul-body dualism, those who assert person-body identity, and those who propose entirely new views that fall outside the categories of monism and dualism. The first book to connect the metaphysics of persons with the belief in life after death, thus intersecting with theological as well as philosophical inquiry, it blurs the divide between metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. Cover 1 SOUL, BODY, AND SURVIVAL 2 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 12 I Cartesian Dualism 24 A Brief Defense of the Cartesian View 26 Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism 41 Causality, Mind, and Free Will 55 Emergentism and Consciousness: Going beyond Property Dualism 70 A Compound of Two Substances 84 Modal Dualism: A Critique 100 II Alternatives to Cartesian Dualism 116 Persons as Emergent Substances 118 Souls Dipped in Dust 131 Identity, Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self 150 Materialism with a Human Face 170 III Does Life after Death Require Dualism? 192 How to Live Forever without Saving Your Soul: Physicalism and Immortality 194 Physical Persons and Postmortem Survival without Temporal Gaps 212 Biblical Anthropology and the Body-Soul Problem 229 Physicalism and Resurrection 240 Contributors 260 Index 262 How are soul and body related to one another? Are human beings immaterial souls, or complex physical organisms? Will we survive the death of our bodies? Does only the dualist view allow the possibility of life after death? This collection brings together cutting-edge research on the metaphysics of human nature and soul-body dualism.Kevin Corcoran's collection, Soul, Body, and Survival, includes chapters from those who embrace traditional soul-body dualism, those who assert person-body identity, and those who propose entirely new views that fall outside the categories of monism and dualism. The first book to connect the metaphysics of persons with the belief in life after death, thus intersecting with theological as well as philosophical inquiry, it blurs the divide between metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. A brief defense of the Cartesian view / John Foster Lonely souls: causality and substance dualism / Jaegwon Kim Causality, mind, and free will / Timothy O'Connor Emergentism and consciousness: going beyond property dualism / Charles Taliaferro A compound of two substances / Eric T. Olson Modal dualism: a critique / Stewart Goetz Persons as emergent substances / William Hasker Souls dipped in dust / Brian Leftow Identity, composition, and the simplicity of the self / E.J. Lowe Materialism with a human face / Lynne Baker How to live forever without saving your soul: physicalism and immortality / Trenton Merricks Physical persons and postmodern survival without temporal gaps / Kevin Corcoran Biblical anthropology and the body-soul problem / John Cooper Physicalism and resurrection / Stephen T. Davis Insofar as it concerns the nature of the mind, substance dualismor Cartesian dualism as I prefer to call itmakes three claims.