Thinking Christianly #38 – “Neurotheology’s Wrong Conclusion About What We Are”: Chapter 4 of Have We Lost Our Minds?
Feb 11, 2025
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In this episode, we continue our series by engaging Chapter 4 of Stan’s new book, Have We Lost Our Minds?: Neuroscience, Neurotheology, the Soul, and Human Flourishing.
We discuss:
- Why neurotheologians are mistaken about our true nature.
- Why it isn’t possible to reduce mental properties to physical events.
- How we should understand our unity through time.
- How the modal argument helps us understand identity.
- Why non-reductive physicalism or “emergence” is of no help to the physicalist position.
- What a “brute fact” is.
- What did Dallas Willard meant when he talked about the nature of the body.
- Thoughts on human flourishing and why it matters.
Resources and Citations:
- Find out more about Have We Lost Our Minds?
- Get the introduction to the book for free on the Global Scholars website.
- A printable group discussion guide can be found here.
- P. Moreland, “Substance Dualism and the Unity of Consciousness”: The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism
- Gary W. Moon, Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower
- Thinking Christianly Episode #6: What is Human Flourishing and How Do We Achieve it?