From Murphy’s Christian Physicalism to Lowe’s Dualism
TheoLogica July 21, 2021 Mostyn Jones, Eric LaRock
Nancey Murphy argues that God created us as physical beings without immortal souls. She supports this Christian physicalism by arguing that neuroscience can better explain minds in terms of physical information processing than dualists can in problematic nonphysical terms. We reply that Murphy overestimates neuroscience and underestimates dualism. She doesn’t show how neuroscience can explain...