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The Soul: How We Know It's Real and Why It Matters is unavailable, but you can change that!

In a culture in which science is believed to hold the answers to every question, spiritual realities like the soul are often ignored or ridiculed. We are told that neuroscience holds the key to explaining every aspect of human behavior. Yet Christian philosopher J. P. Moreland argues that Scripture, sound philosophical reasoning, and everyday experience all point to the reality of an immaterial...

then dualism is established. Then the mind or its properties and states is not the brain or its properties and states. In some of the chapters to follow, I will present a number of arguments that imply that something is true of the mind or its states and not the brain or its states, or vice versa, and thus the former cannot be identical to the latter. But if they are not identical, physicalism is false and, taking dualism to be the only other option, dualism would be true.