The Emergent Self

1. WHAT CAN'T BE ELIMINATED
Eliminative Materialism
The Self-Refutation Argument
Does the Self-Refutation Argument Beg the Question?
Is Eliminative Materialism Self-Refuting?
Do the Contradictions Matter?
Austere Eliminativism and Cognitive Paralysis
Eliminative Materialism: A Diagnosis2. THE LIMITS OF IDENTITY
Quasi-Eliminativist Strategies: Analytic Behaviorism and Functionalism
Mind-Body Identity Theories
The Supervenience of Mind on Body3. WHY THE PHYSICAL ISN'T CLOSED
Supervenience, Causal Closure, and Mechanism
The Argument from Reason
Mechanism and Datwinist Epistemology4. FREE WILL AND AGENCY
Libertarian Free Will
The Frankfurt Counterexamples
Free Will Without an Agent
Agent Causation5. THREE ARGUMENTS FOR SUBSTANCE DUALISM
Descartes according to Swinburne
Descartes according to Taliaferro
The Unity-of-Consciousness Argument6. PROBLEMATIC DUALISMS
Cartesian Dualism
Objections to Cartesian Dualism
The Swinburne Variations
Thomistic Dualism
Critique of Thomistic Dualism7. EMERGENT DUALISM
Concepts of Emergence
Two Recent Emergentists
Emergent Dualism
Further Problems8. PROSPECTS FOR SURVIVAL
Traditional Dualism and Survival
Materialism and Survival: Re-creation
Materialism and Survival: Body-Switching and Body-Splitting
Emergent Dualism and SurvivalINDEX