Whatever happened to the soul? Theological perspectives on neuroscience and the self

2025-02-24 Classification：Religion Click(2)
Author：Murphy, N

Article Title：Whatever happened to the soul? Theological perspectives on neuroscience and the self

Abstract：
Traditional religious teachings about the nature of the person, especially body-soul dualism, influence majority views of the self. Following a historical overview, it is argued that a purely physicalist account of human nature is equally compatible with contemporary science and with Christian thought. However, an account that reduces higher human capacities to neurobiology is unacceptable from a theological perspective.

Keywords: dualism; physicalism; reductionism; science and religion; self; soul

DOI: 10.1196/annals.1279.004

Source：SELF: FROM SOUL TO BRAIN

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