Consciousness and the Mind of God
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- Author: Charles Taliaferro, St Olaf College, Minnesota
- Date Published: June 2005
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521673464
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This work addresses the challenge of contemporary materialism for thinking about God. The book examines contemporary theories of consciousness and defends a non-materialist theory of persons, subjectivity and God. A version of dualism is articulated that seeks to avoid the fragmented outlook of most dualist theories. Dualism is often considered to be inadequate both philosophically and ethically, and is seen as a chief cause of denigrating the body and of promoting individualism and scepticism. Charles Taliaferro defends a holistic understanding of the person-body relationship in which the two are distinguishable yet integrally related. This integrated dualism is spelled out in a way that avoids the ethical and philosophical problems associated with other dualistic accounts, especially in its Platonic and Cartesian forms. A defence is then made of the intelligibility of thinking about God as non-physical, yet integrally present to creation. Charles Taliaferro is co-editor of the forthcoming A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, with Philip Quinn. He has had work published in, among others, The Philosophical Quarterly, Metaphilosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Philosophia.
Read more- A highly sophisticated defence of a nonphysicalist understanding of God
- Develops a highly original 'integrated dualism'
- Explores creatively the interface between the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of mind
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'Taliaferro's project to examine the significance of recent philosophy of mind for philosophical theism is 'an idea whose time has come'.' Richard Creel, Ithica College, New York
See more reviews'… a magisterial survey … Consciousness and the Mind of God offers as comprehensive a survey of the views of Paul Churchland and other luminaries of this era as one might want. … The analysis is invariably informed and judicious.' Brain
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- Date Published: June 2005
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521673464
- length: 360 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 140 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Consciousness
2. The material world
3. Persons and bodies
4. God and the world
5. The omnipresence of God
6. Integrative theism
Conclusion
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