This is a sustained critique of materialism (the thesis that all reality consists of material particles, their relations and interactions). The contributors offer arguments from conscious experience, rational thought, the interaction of mind and body, and the unity and persisting identity of human persons, and develop a wide range of alternatives.

Robert C. Koons is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas -- Austin. Koons studied at Michigan State, Oxford, and UCLA. He is the author of Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality (Cambridge, 1993), and Realism Regained (OUP, 2000).
George Bealer is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Quality and Concept (OUP, 1982)

• I. Arguments from Consciousness


• 1: Laurence BonJour: Against Materialism


• 2: Adam Pautz: Consciousness: A Simple Approach


• 3: Charles Siewert: Saving Appearances: A Dilemma For Physicalists


• 4: Stephen L. White: The Property Dualism Argument


• 5: Eli Hirsch: Kripke's Argument against Materialism


• 6: George Bealer: The Self-Consciousness Argument: Functionalism and the Corruption of Intentional Content


• II. Arguments from Unity and Identity


• 7: David Barnett: On the Significance of Some Intuitions about the Mind


• 8: William Hasker: Persons and the Unity of Consciousness


• 9: Martine Nida-Rümelin: An Argument from Transtemporal Identity for Subject-Body Dualism


• III. Intentionality, Mental Causation and Knowledge


• 10: Bernard W. Kobes: Burge's Dualism


• 11: Tyler Burge: Modest Dualism


• 12: Neal Judisch: Descartes' Revenge Part II: The Supervenience Argument Strikes Back


• 13: Timothy O'Connor and John Ross Churchill: Nonreductive Materialism or Emergent Dualism? The Argument from Mental Causation


• 14: Robert C. Koons: Epistemological Objections to Materialism


• IV. Alternatives to Materialism


• 15: Terry Horgan: Materialism, Minimal Emergentism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness


• 16: Michael Jubien: Dualizing Materialism


• 17: Joseph Almog: Dualistic Materialism


• 18: Mario De Caro: Varieties of Naturalism


• 19: Angus J. L. Menuge: Against Methodological Materialism


• 20: Brian Leftow: Soul, Mind and Brain


• 21: Uwe Meixner: Materialism Does Not Save the Phenomena -- and the Alternative Which Does


• 22: E. J. Lowe: Substance Dualism: A Non-Cartesian Approach


• Bibliography


• Index