Faith and Philosophy

Volume 12, Issue 4, October 1995

Christian Philosophy and the Mind-Body Problem

Concerning the Unity of Consciousness

Ever since Descartes there have been philosophers who have claimed that the unity of conscious experience argues strongly against the possibility that the mind or self is a material thing. My contention is that the recent neglect of this argument is a mistake, and that it places a serious and perhaps insuperable obstacle in the way of materialist theories of the mind.