The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism

By Brandon Rickabaugh (Author), this book presents a singularly powerful and rigorous argument in favor of modern substance dualism. It explores areas of philosophy, cognitive science, neuroscience, and the sociology of mind-body beliefs, making it a multidisciplinary work.

The authors deliver a unique and comprehensive defense of contemporary substance dualism, which claims that the human person is an embodied fundamental, immaterial, and unifying substance. This book is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and rigorous non-edited work on substance dualism in the field, providing a detailed history of how property and substance dualism have been presented and evaluated over the last 150 years.

Alongside developing new and updated positive arguments for substance dualism, the authors also discuss key metaphysical notions and distinctions that inform the examination of substance dualism and its alternatives. This work is perfect for professional philosophers, consciousness researchers, philosophical theologians, and religious studies scholars.

The Substance of Consciousness also explores the recent shift away from standard physicalism and the renaissance of substance dualism. It provides comprehensive explorations of the likely future of substance dualism in the twenty-first century, including an exhaustive list of proposed research projects for substance dualists. Furthermore, it offers practical discussion of new and rigorous critiques of significant physicality alternatives, including emergentism and panpsychism.

With extensive treatments of philosophy of mind debates about the roles played by staunch/faint-hearted naturalism and theism in establishing or presuming methodology, epistemic priorities, and prior metaphysical commitments, this book is a valuable resource for those interested in the field of substance dualism.

Published by Wiley on September 7, 2023, this book is available in English. It is a must-have for those looking to delve deeper into the complexities of substance dualism and its implications for our understanding of consciousness and the human experience.