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ix Acknowledgments All but two essays in this book are new essays on dualism and physicalism . Richard Swinburne’s essay “From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism” appeared in Persons: Human and Divine, edited by Peter van Inwagen and Dean Zimmerman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 142–65. Alvin Plantinga’s essay “Against Materialism ” appeared in Faith and Philosophy 23, no. 1 (2006): 3–32. I am grateful to Oxford University Press and the editor of Faith and Philosophy for granting me permission to reprint the essays. I am also grateful to the University of Notre Dame Press, and to Andre Banning , Justyna Göcke, Andreas Hüttemann, Klaus Müller, Alexander Norman, Michael Olenick, and Stephen Priest. Finally, I would like to thank Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, and the Seminar für philosophische Grundfragen der Theologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster , for providing room for excellent philosophical discussions. ...

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