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After Physicalism
Although physicalism has been the dominant position in recent
work in the philosophy of mind, this dominance has not prevented a
small but growing number of philosophers from arguing that
physicalism is untenable for several reasons: both ontologically
and epistemologically it cannot reduce mentality to the realm of
the physical, and its attempts to reduce subjectivity to
objectivity have thoroughly failed. The contributors to After
Physicalism provide powerful alternatives to the physicalist
account of the human mind from a dualistic point of view and argue
that the reductive and naturalistic paradigm in philosophy has lost
its force.
The essays in this collection all firmly engage in a priori
metaphysics. Those by Uwe Meixner, E. J. Lowe, John Foster, Alvin
Plantinga, and Richard Swinburne are concerned with ways to
establish the truth of dualism. Essays by William Hasker, A. D.
Smith, and Howard Robinson deal with the relation between
physicalism and dualism. Benedikt Paul Göcke argues that the \"I\" is
not a particular and Stephen Priest that \"I have to understand
myself not as a thing but as no-thing-ness.\" In the final essay,
Thomas Schärtl argues that there are limits to dualism as indicated
by the concept of resurrection. By including two classical essays
by Plantinga and Swinburne, the volume conveniently brings together
some of the best and the newest thinking in making the
philosophical case for dualism.
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