PHL 6023 - Minds, Bodies, and Persons

3 Credit Hours

Students will study of issues, positions, and models related to the “mind-body problem” and human nature (e.g., eliminative materialism, functionalism, behaviorism, and property vs. substance dualism). This course includes discussion of human agency, personal identity, the nature of the soul, and (dis)embodied existence. It explores some of the ethical implications of various views of human persons as well as biblical texts related to the body-soul question. It offers a defense of substance dualism.

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