In The Emergent Self William Hasker joins one of the most heated
debates in analytic philosophy, that over the nature of mind. His
provocative and clearly written book challenges physicalist views
of human mental functioning and advances the concept of mind as an
emergent individual.
Hasker begins by mounting a compelling critique of the dominant
paradigm in philosophy of mind, showing that contemporary forms of
materialism are seriously deficient in confronting crucial aspects
of experience. He further holds that popular attempts to explain
the workings of mind in terms of mechanistic physics cannot
succeed. He then criticizes the two versions of substance dualism
most widely accepted today -- Cartesian and Thomistic -- and
presents his own theory of emergent dualism. Unlike traditional
substance dualisms, Hasker's theory recognizes the critical role of
the brain and nervous system for mental processes. It also avoids
the mechanistic reductionism characteristic of recent
materialism.
Hasker concludes by addressing the topic of survival following
bodily death. After demonstrating the failure of materialist views
to offer a plausible and coherent account of that possibility, he
considers the implications of emergentism for notions of
resurrection and the afterlife.
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