Online research in philosophy

The essay sets out difficulties facing currently favoured approaches in the philosophy of mind and then argues that reflection on the Christian Doctrine that, in the person of Jesus Christ, God became a man may reveal new ways of thinking about what ’we’ are. If sense is to be made of this doctrine we must think of a ’single’ subject possessed of divine and human attributes. Applying this idea in the philosophy of mind suggests a view which avoids both Cartesian (...) dualism and physicalism. (shrink)