The Substance of Consciousness

Praise for The Substance of Consciousness "Though most materialists don't know it, we're in the midst of a renaissance of intellectually serious substance dualism thirty years in the making. This book will push the crest of that dualist wave even higher. Materialists who hope to resist have our work cut out for us." -Andrew M. Bailey, Yale-NUS College "Rickabaugh and Moreland have produced a tour de force in this brilliant, systematic case for contemporary forms of substance dualism. It is a treasure trove of arguments, objections, and replies that should be required reading in philosophy of mind today." -Charles Taliaferro, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, St. Olaf College "Moreland and Rickabaugh have written the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and sophisticated defense of substance dualism available. They successfully tackle every anti-dualist argument in the literature." -Robert C. Koons, University of Texas at Austin "This is a stunning book. Rickabaugh and Moreland marshal a formidable phalanx of arguments for substance dualism as an account of consciousness and various aspects of the soul/mind and body relation." - C. Stephen Evans, Emeritus University Professor, Baylor University and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Notre Dame Australia "Can we explain the unity of consciousness, or our continuity over time, without the postulation of a simple, immaterial entity as the seat of human consciousness? Materialists and panpsychists hope we can, but The Substance of Consciousness raises powerful challenges to all of these attempts to explain the human mind 'on the cheap.' Anyone working on the philosophy of consciousness needs to confront these arguments and work out how to respond. It's not easy!" -Philip Goff, Durham University