Science has always created problems for traditional ways of seeing
things, but now the very attributes that make us human--free will,
the permanence of personal identity, the existence of the soul--are
threatened by the science of the mind. If the mind is the brain,
and therefore a physical object subject to deterministic laws, how
can we have free will? If most of our thoughts and impulses are
unconscious, how can we be morally responsible for what we do? If
brains and bodies undergo relentless change, how can our identities
be constant? "The Problem of the Soul" shows the way out of these
paradoxes. Framing the conflict in terms of two dominant visions of
the mind--the "manifest image" of humanistic philosophy and
theology, and the scientific image--Owen Flanagan demonstrates that
there is common ground, and that we need not give up our ideas of
moral responsibility and personal freedom in order to have an
empirically sound view of the human mind. This is a profoundly
relevant work of philosophy for the common reader.
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