Stewart Goetz is an American philosopher and writer. Goetz obtained a PhD in philosophy from the

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. He a professor in Philosophy and Religion at

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. He has defended

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. Goetz is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society at the

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. He has debated physicalist Andrew Melnyk on consciousness and free will at

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Selected publications

''Substance Dualism''
In ''The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology'' (1991) *''Freedom, Teleology, and Evil'' (2008) *''Naturalism'' (with Charles Taliaferro, 2008) *''A Brief History of the Soul'' (with Charles Taliaferro, 2011) *''The Soul Hypothesis'' (with Mark Baker, 2011) *''The Routledge Companion to Theism'' (with Charles Taliaferro and Victoria Harrison, 2012) *''The Purpose of Life: A Theistic Perspective'' (2012)
''Free Will and Substance Dualism''
In ''The Routledge Companion to Free Will'' (2016)
''Against Animalism''
In ''The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism'' (2018) *''C.S. Lewis'' (2018)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goetz, Stewart 21st-century American philosophers American philosophy academics American philosophers of mind American philosophers of religion Dualists Living people University of Notre Dame alumni Ursinus College faculty Year of birth missing (living people)