Are We Bodies or Souls?
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 imma…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-256719-2
- EAN: 9780192567192
- Produktnummer: 31950325
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 947 KB
Über den Autor
Richard Swinburne was Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford from 1985 until 2002. Since then he has continued to lecture in many different countries. His published works include a trilogy on the philosophy of theism, the central title being The Existence of God, Second Edition (Oxford 2004), a tetralology of books on the meaning and justification of central Christian doctrines, and Mind, Brain, and FreeWill (Oxford 2013). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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