Extra-Long (>70 mins)
Philosophy
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Nancey Murphy, PhD - "Do Humans Have Minds? Neuroscientific and Biblical Issues"
Theologian
Nancey Murphy
Duration
80.48
Uploaded to YouTube
29 September 2016
Added to Database
20 August 2025
YouTube description
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.
