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Nancey Murphy, PhD - "Do Humans Have Minds? Neuroscientific and Biblical Issues"

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Nancey Murphy


Duration

80.48


Uploaded to YouTube

29 September 2016

Added to Database

20 August 2025


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Chestnut Hill College's Institute for Religion and Science Nancey Murphy, PhD, looks briefly at theological views of human nature and at critical points in history when science influenced these views. The major emphasis will be to illustrate the many ways neuroscience is calling body-soul or body-mind dualism into question, and promoting a physicalist accountthat is, describing humans as purely physical organisms. However, the claim that we are composed of matter must not be taken to imply that higher human faculties are simply determined by material laws.