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- Title
RICHARD SWINBURNE'ÜN DÜALİZM SAVUNUSU.
- Authors
YILMAZ, Aykut Alper
- Abstract
Richard Swinburne is one of the most important figures in philosophy of religion who took special interest in the soul. Also he is one of the most prominent defenders of dualism -also known as mind-body dualism or substance dualism- that regards humans as composed of two different substances called body and the soul. He defended the dualist view against contemporary problems of dualism and contributed to it with his three books, namely The Evolution of the Soul; Mind, Brain and Free Will and Are We Bodies or Souls? alongside with other publications. In this paper, I will introduce Swinburne's version of Cartesian dualism and critically investigate whether it provides us some reasons to believe in the soul. For this reason, I will examine the two principle arguments Swinburne offers in the explanations of dualism -one of them is known as the conceivability argument and the other is based on an imaginary scenario from transplants- along with their critics. To sum up, the main point drawn in this paper will be Swinburne's arguments for dualism along with some of their critics.
- Subjects
MIND &; body; PHILOSOPHY of religion; DUALISM; AUTONOMY (Psychology); SOUL; FREE will &; determinism; CARTESIANISM (Philosophy)
- Publication
KADER, 2020, Vol 18, Issue 1, p318
- ISSN
2602-2710
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18317/kaderdergi.722374