Is Our Mind More Than Matter? Keith Ward vs David Papineau - Unbelievable? 14 Jan 2012

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Is our physical brain one and the same with the consciousness, thoughts and perceptions we experience? Is matter all there is ultimately? Keith Ward is a prominent Christian Philosopher & Theologian. The Former Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University. He believes in an immaterial mind, as well as the phsical brain. David Papineau is Professor of Philosophy of Science at Kings College London. As an atheist & physicalist he believes that the mind is one and the same with the brain - there is nothing immaterial about it. For Keith Ward see http://www.keithward.org.uk/ For David Papineau http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/papineau/index.aspx For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit http://www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the MP3 podcast http://ondemand.premier.org.uk/unbelievable/AudioFeed.aspx or Via Itunes Unbelievable? 23 Aug 2008 Why there IS a God - Keith Ward Keith Ward and Robert Stovold Unbelievable? 21 Jun 2008 A Case for theistic evolution - Keith Ward Join the conversation at http://www.premiercommunity.org.uk/group/unbelievable and via Facebook and Twitter

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0:58.4	We're looking at the mind, the body and the soul.
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1:03.0	And today on the program we cover the mind asking is our mind more than matter?
1:09.0	And I'm joined by Keith Ward, a Christian philosopher, theologian priest priest in the Church of England, he is the former
1:14.4	Regis Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and the author of many books on religion, philosophy,
1:20.0	the Bible, science and faith.
1:21.6	My other guest is David Papino, Professor of Philosophy of Science
1:25.1	at King's College London, former President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science,
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