Mind/Body Problem

Selected Readings:

Armstrong. D.M. The Mind-Body Problem: An Opinionated Introduction.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999.

Bealer, G. “On the Possibility of Philosophical Knowledge” in J.E. Tomberlin (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives 10: Metaphysics, 1-34.  Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996.

Beauregard, M. and O’Leary, D. The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul.  NewYork: HarperCollins, 2007.

Beilby, J. (ed.). Naturalism Defeated? Essays on Planitnga’s Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Churchland, Paul M. Metaphysics and the Mind-Body Problem. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.

________. Matter and ConsciousnessBody, Soul, and Life Everlasting, rev. edition. Cambridge , MA: MIT Press, 1988.

Dennet, Daniel. Consciousness Explained. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.

Hasker, William.  The Emergent Self. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001.

________. “What is Naturalism?  And Should We Be Naturalists?” in Philosophia Christi, Volume 15, No1, pps. 11-20.

Goetz, Stewart. “The Argument from Reason” in Philosophia Christi, Volume 15, No1, pps.  47-62.

Heil, John. The Nature of True Minds: In Search of a Fundamental TheoryProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.


Kim, Jaegwon. “Mental Causation and Two Conceptions of Mental Properties.” Paper delivered at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, December 27-30, 1993.
________. “The Myth of Nonreductive Materialism,” in 63 (1989):47.
________. Mind in a Physical WorldPhilosophy of Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.

McGinn, Colin. The Mysterious MindThe Problem of Consciousness: Essays Toward a Resolution. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
________. . Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.

Menuge, Angus. Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.

________. “Neuroscience, Rationality and Free Will” in Philosophia Christi, Volume 15, No1, pps. 81-96.

Moreland, J. P. “God and the Argument from Mind,” in Scaling the Secular CityChristian Perspectives on Being Human: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Integration, by J.P. Moreland, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1987, pps. 77-103.
________. “A Defense of a Substance Dualist View of the Soul,” in , Edited by J. P. Moreland and David M. Ciocchi, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1993, pp. 55-79.

________. “Mental vs. Top-Down Causation: Sic et Non: Why Top-Down Causation Does Not Support Mental Causation” in Philosophia Christi, Volume 15, No1, pps. 133-148.

________. & Craig, William Lane. Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview. Downers Grove, Ill: InterVarsity Press, 2003. See especially the discussion the mind/body problem on pp. 228-247.

Nagel, Thomas. The Last Word. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

________. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly FalseMatter and Sense.  Oxford University Press, 2012.

Robinson, Howard. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

________. (ed.) Objections to PhysicalismThe Rediscovery of the Mind. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.

Searle, John. . Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992.

Smythies, John R., and Beloff, John eds. The Case for DualismThe Evolution of the Soul. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.

Taliaferro, Charles. “Naturalism and the Mind” in Naturalism: A Critical AnalysisConsciousness and the Mind of God. Edited by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. New York: Routledge, 2000.
________. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
________. “Philosophy of Mind and the Christian,” in Christian Theism and the Problems of Philosophy. Edited by Michael D. Beaty. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990, pp. 230-53.

Wagner, S.J. and Wagner, R.. Naturalism A Critical Appraisal.  Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.

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