Within Reason #29 Richard Swinburne - Souls, Free Will and the Problem of Evil
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Apr 30, 2023 AI Snips
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Value Of Careful Definitions
- Ordinary language philosophy taught Swinburne to define terms carefully and avoid pseudo-problems.
- He kept that sensitivity when framing philosophical concepts like free will and personhood.
Person As Mental Substance
- Swinburne defines a person as a pure mental substance with free will and moral beliefs.
- A person can exist with or without a body according to this definition.
Mind-Brain Interaction Is Basic
- Mental properties have privileged access and interact with brain states, showing two-way causation.
- Swinburne treats interaction as a basic fact even if the mechanism remains mysterious.