Dualist support/response to materialism
1) our use of human language suggests a separate soul
emily vs Emily’s body, one sounds like a corpse vs alive
2) from religious belief
3) logical possibility of existing without a body (Swinburne)
We can imagine it, which means there must be something separate
VS Elizabeth anscombe just because we can imagine something doesn’t mean it can exist
4) huge differences between body and soul, cannot be the same the sings as have such different properties
body has extension but mind doesn’t
if they were identical they would have same properties
COUNTER: no need to even separate the two and set them as equal, the mind is just a feature of the body, an illusion made up of hormones and electrical purposes
5) without immaterial soul, morality is just a choice
Keith ward morality would be a matter of opinion rather than driven by God - no ultimate purpose
6) Qualia