BRANDON RICKABAUGH is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Research Scholar of Philosophy of Technology and Culture at Palm Beach Atlantic University. His work has won multiple awards and published in academic journals and books with presses such as Wiley Blackwell and Oxford University Press. He is a fellow of the Cultura Initiative at The Martin Institute in Santa Barbara, California. For more, visit [...]

J.P. MORELAND is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University. He has authored or contributed to 95 books, including Does God Exist?, Universals, Consciousness and the Existence of God, and The Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology. He has also published around one hundred articles in a range of philosophy and religious studies journals, and in 2016 and 2022, Moreland was selected by The Best Schools as one of the 50 most influential living philosophers in the world.

List of Figures xxi

Acknowledgments xxii

Part I Ontologically Serious Philosophy of Mind 1

1 Substance Dualism in the 21st Century 3

2 How Staunch Naturalism Shapes the Dialectic in Philosophy of Mind 16

3 A Brief Ontological Detour: Subjects, Parts, Wholes, and Unity 43

Part II Arguments from Introspection, Self-Awareness, and Intentionality 57

4 The Real Nature of Introspection Arguments for Substance Dualism 59

5 From Self-Awareness and Intentionality to the Self as Soul 74

Part III On the Fundamental Unity of Conscious Beings 117

6 From Phenomenal Unity to the Synchronic Unity of the Immaterial Self 119

7 Mereological Essentialism and the Diachronic Endurance of the Soul 144

Part IV Updated and Novel Arguments from Modality and Libertarian Freedom 189

8 Upgrading Modal Arguments for Substance Dualism 191

9 Staunch Libertarian Agency and the Simple, Enduring Soul 234

Part V New and Neglected Responses to Common Defeaters Against Substance Dualism 273

10 Important Frequently Raised Defeaters Against Substance Dualism 275

Part VI Charting a Future for Substance Dualism 309

11 New Research Programs for 21st Century Substance Dualism 311

APPENDIX: The Soul, Mental Action, and the Conservation Laws 344
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Bibliography 361

Index 392