Persons as Emergent Substances

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Soul or Body? 1
5. PART I. Cartesian Dualism
6. A Brief Defense of the Cartesian View 15
7. Lonely Souls: Causality and Substance Dualism 30
8. Causality, Mind, and Free Will 44
9. Emergentism and Consciousness: Going beyond Property Dualism 59
10. A Compound of Two Substances 73
11. Modal Dualism: A Critique 89
12. PART II. Alternatives to Cartesian Dualism
13. Persons as Emergent Substances 107
14. Souls Dipped in Dust 120
15. Identity, Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self 139
16. Materialism with a Homan Face 159
17. PART III. Does Life after Death Require Dualism?
18. How to Live Forever without Saving Your Soul 183
19. Physical Persons and Postmortem Survival without Temporal Gaps 201
20. Biblical Anthropology and the Body-Soul Problem 218
21. Physicalism and Resurrection 229
22. Contributors 249
23. INDEX 251