Are We Bodies or Souls?

Are We Bodies or Souls?
Richard Swinburne
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Hardback
h216 x 135mm - 208pg
1 Jul 2019 UK
9780198831495
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What are humans? What makes us who we are? Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new philosophical arguments that are supported by modern neuroscience. When scientific advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences we will neverknow whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new. Swinburne thus argues that we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains. Sensations, thoughts, and intentions are conscious events in our souls that cause events in our brains. While scientists might discover someof the laws of nature that determine conscious events and brain events, each person's soul is an individual thing and this is what ultimately makes us who we are.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780198831495
Published: 1 Jul 2019
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 208

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