Date:  Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Time:  7:30-9:00 pm ET  (4:30-6:00 pm PT)

Speaker:   Dean Zimmerman  (Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for the Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University)

Title of Presentation:  “Souls and Bodies: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives”

Description of Presentation:

It is sometimes said that, in contemporary philosophy, a dualism of body and soul is dead.  This is not entirely true.  Dualisms that distinguish mental states from physical states are common in philosophy of mind; and there are good arguments for some form of dualism.  Given these arguments, a more fully-fledged dualism of mental and physical substances becomes fairly plausible.  And the fate of body-soul dualism is not irrelevant to Christianity.  There are good theological reasons to believe, not just in survival of death, but also in an intermediate state of existence prior to bodily resurrection — which requires (or at least fits best with) a dualism of bodies and souls.  

Pre-registration:  Required for this event
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Hosts:  Brian Greuel – President, Affiliation of Christian Biologists (btgreuel@gmail.com) and Walter Rogero - President, Affiliation of Ministers, Theologians, and Philosophers (walter.rogero@LIVE.com).