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Zusatztext This collection of essays...gives an excellent snapshot of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion...These papers are marked by considerable technical complexity. Klappentext The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy, currently enjoying something of a revival. In this volume for the first time metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons are brought together with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. Fifteen specially written essays explore idealist, dualist, and materialist views of persons, discuss specifically Christian conceptions of the value of embodiment, and address four central topics in philosophical theology: incarnation, resurrection, original sin, and the trinity. Zusammenfassung The nature of persons is a perennial topic of debate in philosophy. This volume brings together metaphysical debates about the nature of human persons with related debates in philosophy of religion and theology. It explores idealist, dualist, and materialist views of persons, and discusses Christian conceptions of the value of embodiment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Three Introductory Questions Idealism 1: Robert M. Adams: Idealism Vindicated 2: Howard Robinson: The Self and Time Dualism 3: John Hawthorne: A Neglected Cartesian Argument for Dualism 4: Alvin Plantinga: Materialism and Christian Belief 5: Richard Swinburne: From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism 6: W. D. Hart and Takashi Yagisawa: Ghosts Are Chilly 7: Hong Yu Wong: 'Cartesian Psychophysics' Materialism 8: Peter van Inwagen: A Materialist Ontology of the Human Person 9: Hud Hudson: I Am Not An Animal! Embodiment and the Value of Persons 10: Philip L. Quinn: On the Intrinsic Value of Human Persons 11: Lynne Rudder Baker: Persons and the Natural Order Personhood in Christian Doctrine 12: Trenton Merricks: The Word Made Flesh: Dualism, Physicalism, and the Incarnation 13: Peter Forrest: The Tree of Life: Agency and Immortality in a Metaphysics Inspired by Quantum Theory 14: Michael Rea: The Metaphysics of Original Sin 15: Brian Leftow: Modes without Modalism ...
