David K. writes,<\/span><\/p>\n I need some help. I have been exploring the concept of the 'soul' over the last few months. I've meant it to be a fairly wide open review. I have 'rounded up the usual suspects' philosophically and worked my way through a great deal of the biomedical writings. Presently, I am in the middle of two works: The Soul of the Embryo<\/em> by David Albert Jones and Soul Machine<\/em> by George Makari. I am looking for a contemporary philosophical treatment of the topic. I have searched the categories on both your blogs but wonder if there is a direction you can point me to as well. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n With pleasure, David. <\/span><\/p>\n For a high-level contemporary treatment by a distinguished philosopher of religion, I recommend Richard Swinburne, Are We Bodies or Souls?<\/em> Oxford UP, 2019. The Soul Hypothesis<\/em>, eds. Baker and Goetz, Continuum 2011, is a collection of essays by analytic philosophers. For a hard-core old-time Thomist treatment, one that is probably not quite in line with your current interests as a medical doctor, but still highly relevant given your Catholic upbringing, take a gander at Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, Life Everlasting and the Immensity of the Soul<\/em> (no bibliographical details in my copy!). More relevant to your biomedical interests is Norman M. Ford, When Did I Begin?<\/em> Cambridge UP, 1988. <\/span><\/p>\n Directly relevant to your concerns is the mercifully short Were You a Zygote?<\/a> by G. E. M. Anscombe. Also of interest is Erich Klawonn, Mind and Death: A Metaphysical Investigation<\/em>, University Press of Southern Denmark, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n I'll add further titles if they occur to me. Comments are enabled if anyone wants to make suggestions.<\/span><\/p>\n Finally, here<\/a> is a review by Thomas Nagel, no slouch of a philosopher, of the Swinburne volume mentioned supra<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David K. writes, I need some help. I have been exploring the concept of the 'soul' over the last few months. I've meant it to be a fairly wide open review. I have 'rounded up the usual suspects' philosophically and worked my way through a great deal of the biomedical writings. Presently, I am in … Continue reading “De Anima<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mind","category-soul-and-body"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n