Daniel Alejandro Perez Chamorro

Areas of Specialty: Metaphysics (Essentialism, Universals), Ontology (Ontological Square), Philosophy of Mind (NCSD, Hylomorphism, Dualism, Personal Agency), Analytic Theology (Trinity, Eucharist, Anthropology, Meta-theology),

Areas of Competence: Neo-Aristotelianism, Analytic Philosophy of Religion, Analytical Thomism, History of Philosophy

Areas of Interest: Cognitive Sciences

PhD title: "In Defence of a Classic Eschatology: An Essay in Analytic Theology"

Abstract:

“We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come”. The death and resurrection have been two theological and philosophical central topics of the 20th and 21st century. On the one hand, many Christian theologians have rejected the traditional position about death and resurrection, refusing the possibility of an intermediate state and a beatific vision (Althaus, Chardin, Greshake, Rahner, Balthasar, Lohfink). On the other hand, many Christian philosophers have developed and revisited three central positions in order to think of the resurrection: hylomorphism (Stump, Oderberg), dualism (Plantinga, Swinburne, Hasker) and materialism (Inwagen, O’Connor). In this study, I shall explore the non-Cartesian substance dualism [NCSD] advocated by E. J. Lowe.

NCSD is a coherent metaphysical conception of ourselves as psychological substances, ontologically distinct from the physical substances (but coinciding with our bodies) and possessing causal powers. These causal powers are complements of those of our bodies, rather than being reducible to them. This system supposes some less commonly held positions in the metaphysics of mind but constitute at the same time its advantages. Thus, if NCSD has some common points with Cartesian dualisms and Non-Cartesian dualisms, this position is an original one. In this research, NCSD’s virtues will be explored as well as a model of the resurrection grounded in this position.