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Metaphysica

ISSN 1874-6373

2 papers in the library · publishing 2021-2024

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Dualism, the Causal Closure of the Physical, and Philip Goff’s Case for Panpsychism

Metaphysica January 24, 2024 D. Sepetyi

Abstract The article discusses Philip Goff’s latest projects of developing panpsychist research program as one that is capable of revealing the place of consciousness in the physical world and accounting for the intrinsic nature of physical reality, while avoiding the problem of the causal closure of the physical that is supposed to be pernicious for psychophysical dualism. The case is made...

Proving God without Dualism: Improving the Swinburne-Moreland Argument from Consciousness

Metaphysica April 27, 2021 Ward Blondé, Ludger Jansen

AbstractWith substance dualism and the existence of God, Swinburne (2004,The Existence of God, Oxford University Press, Oxford) and Moreland (2010,Consciousness and the Existence of God, Routledge, New York) have argued for a very powerful explanatory mechanism that can readily explain several philosophical problems related to consciousness. However, their positions come with presuppositions...