Disclaimer: As with all our resources and especially Podcasts, inclusion does not necessarily mean endorsement of the views presented. Our aim was to include important presentations from multiple points of view so the researcher can form her own opinions—informed by a Christian world-view.
Be sure to check out our sub-site on the Mind/Body Problem and especially the part that deals with Consciousness to get important definitions and a range of views.
Other On-Line Resources:
- John Pippo
- An Argument from Consciousness and Free Will (Goetz and Taliaferro)
- Responding to Criticism on the Argument from Consciousness (J.P. Moreland)
- God is the Best Explanation of Intentional States of Consciousness (William Lane Craig)
- God and Phenomenal Consciousness: Novel Approach to Consciousness Args. (Nagasawa)
- UK Apologetics: The Arguments from Consciousness
- PhiloLogos: Consciousness and Identity
- Philosophical Notes on Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos (Moreland)
- A Conceptualist Argument for a Spiritual Substantial Soul (Moreland)
- Substance Dualism and Self-Awareness (Moreland)
Why is Conscousness Baffling? (Closer to Truth)
Emergence (Closer to Truth)
What’s Wrong with Immortal Souls? (Closer to Truth)
Can a Person be a Soul? (John Searle - Closer to Truth)
Contra
- http://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularoutpost/2011/11/14/moreland-on-consciousness/
- http://www.closertotruth.com/topic/Arguing-God-from-Consciousness/93
- http://atheism.about.com/od/argumentsforgod/a/consciousness.htm
- http://infidels.org/library/modern/steven_conifer/ac.html
- http://agileatheist.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-response-to-argument-from.html
- http://www.argumentsforatheism.com/arguments_god_consciousness.html
- http://www.turing.org.uk/publications/ex9.html
- http://www.gidgreen.com/ma_thesis.pdf
Other Resources:
G.E.M. Anscombe, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981
Moreland, J.P.. Consciousness and the Existence of God. Routledge, 2009.
________ . “The Argument from Consciousness” in Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology. William Lane Craig & J.P. Moreland (eds.). Routledge, 2012. pps. 241-343.