Peter van Inwagen - Is the Person All Material?

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What makes a human a ‘person’? What provides our sense of unity and continuity? While most assume that to be a person is to have a soul, most philosophers—and some theologians—assert that persons are all material. What’s the role of consciousness in personhood? To be a person, must a person be conscious? If consciousness is all material, must a person be also?

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Peter van Inwagen is an American analytic philosopher and the John Cardinal O’Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. earned his PhD from the University of Rochester under the direction of Richard Taylor and Keith Lehrer.

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