Ralph Stefan Weir joins me to discuss the myth of the interaction problem, the connection between theism and the soul, the implausibility of property dualism, substance dualism in Eastern thought, the causal closure argument and energy conservation, a posteriori necessities, modal rationalism, panpsychism and idealism, personal identity, transhumanism, mind-uploading, split brain cases, whether souls are eternal, and much else.
Dr. Weir is the author of The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance published by Routledge. He teaches philosophy at the University of Lincoln and is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford.
My episode about ghosts referred to around the 23 minute mark: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/78-ghosts-yeah-why-not-ghosts/id1474408172?i=1000678827707
Dustin Crummett's interview with Dr. Weir th-cam.com/video/Xq9u6erSF24/w-d-xo.html
The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance www.amazon.com/Mind-Body-Problem-Metaphysics-Consciousness-Contemporary-ebook/dp/B0C62ZLS33?ref_=ast_author_dp
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00:00 Introduction
5:50 Religion and Dualism
16:19 Dualism Across Cultures
24:37 The Interaction Problem, Causal Exclusion, Energy Conservation
1:09:53 Arguing from Consciousness to Mental Substance
1:30:34 The Disembodiment Argument, Modal Rationalism
2:23:47 The Parity Argument, Multiple Realizability
2:57:50 Transhumanism, Mind-Uploading, Open Individualism
3:13:14 Split Brains and Epistemic Impoverishment
3:22:42 Are souls eternal? Am I a necessary being?