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Consciousness and the Mind of God (Hardcover, New)
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Consciousness and the Mind of God (Hardcover, New)
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Consciousness and the Mind of God is especially concerned with
central metaphysical claims about the nature of persons and the
implications of these claims for the philosophy of God. Charles
Taliaferro shows that in the contemporary climate there is a
widespread view that the insights gained from a philosophy of human
persons lead either to a total abandonment of traditional theistic
claims about God or to a radical revision of theistic claims about
how God relates to the world. Thus, the preponderance of
physicalism has led a wide range of philosophers and theologians to
reconsider the traditional conception of God as a nonphysical
person or person-like reality, ideas about the afterlife, and the
Christian doctrine of the incarnation. Some have taken the
plausibility of physicalism to be a sufficient ground for embracing
philosophical atheism, and thereby rejecting wholesale the
fundamental claims of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Others have
taken the success of a physicalist philosophy to justify treating
religion along noncognitive lines. Taliaferro critically examines
these options, and defends a nonphysicalist understanding of the
God-world relation. He maintains that, while persons are not
identical with their bodies, and God is not identical with the
cosmos, it remains the case that persons and bodies, God and the
cosmos, "exist in a profoundly integral union". His notions of
"integrative dualism" and "integrative theism" seek to avoid some
of the extremes of Cartesian and Platonic dualism.
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