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Whatever Happened to the Soul?
Author(s) -
MURPHY NANCEY
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1279.004
Subject(s) - soul , dualism , physicalism , perspective (graphical) , epistemology , philosophy , mind–body problem , metaphysics , computer science , artificial intelligence
A bstract : Traditional religious teachings about the nature of the person, especially body‐soul dualism, influence majority views of the self. Following a historical overview, it is argued that a purely physicalist account of human nature is equally compatible with contemporary science and with Christian thought. However, an account that reduces higher human capacities to neurobiology is unacceptable from a theological perspective.
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