Mind/Body Problem

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Selected Readings:

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

Cooper,John W. Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

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

Heil, John. The Nature of True Minds: In Search of a Fundamental Theory. 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 Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 63 (1989):47.
________. Mind in a Physical World. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
________. Philosophy of Mind. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1996.

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

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

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

Pasanau, Robert. Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Robinson, Howard. Matter and Sense. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Searle, John. The Rediscovery of the Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992.

Smythies, John R., and Beloff, John eds. The Case for Dualism. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989.

Swinburne, Richard. The Evolution of the Soul. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Taliaferro, Charles. “Naturalism and the Mind” in Naturalism: A Critical Analysis. Edited by J. P. Moreland and William Lane Craig. New York: Routledge, 2000.
________. Consciousness and the Mind of God. 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.

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