Stewart Goetz

{{Short description|American Philosopher and writer}}

Stewart Goetz is an American philosopher and writer.

Goetz obtained a PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Stewart Goetz|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/stewart-goetz/|website=Bloomsbury|language=en-GB|archive-date=|archive-url=}} He a professor in Philosophy and Religion at Ursinus College. He has defended substance dualism.{{cite journal|author=Evans, C. Stephen|year=2012|title=Mark C. Baker and Stewart Goetz, eds., The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations into the Existence of the Soul|journal=Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers|url=https://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2529&context=faithandphilosophy|volume=20|issue=2|pages=240–243|doi=10.5840/faithphil201229224}}{{cite journal|author=Givens, Terryl L.|year=2012|title=Reviewed Work: A Brief History of the Soul by Stewart Goetz, Charles Taliaferro|journal=Church History|volume=81|issue=3|pages=656–658|jstor=23252345}} Goetz is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society at the Independent Institute.{{Cite web|date=2024|title=Stewart Goetz|url=https://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1226|website=Independent Institute|language=en-GB|archive-date=|archive-url=}} He has debated physicalist Andrew Melnyk on consciousness and free will at Internet Infidels.{{Cite web|date=2024|title=Stewart Goetz|url=https://infidels.org/author/stewart-goetz/|website=Internet Infidels|language=en-GB|archive-date=September 25, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925212143/https://infidels.org/author/stewart-goetz/|url-status=live}}

Selected publications

  • [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315613673-14/substance-dualism-stewart-goetz Substance Dualism] In The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology (1991)
  • Freedom, Teleology, and Evil (2008){{cite journal|author=Elzein, Nadine|year=2015|title=Freedom, Teleology, and Evil, by Stewart Goetz|journal=Mind|url=https://academic.oup.com/mind/article-abstract/124/493/338/2606054|volume=124|issue=493|pages=338–342|doi=10.1093/mind/fzu167|url-access=subscription}}{{cite journal|author=Reitan, Eric|year=2010|title=Reviewed Work: Freedom, Teleology, and Evil Stewart Goetz|journal=Religious Studies|volume=46|issue=1|pages=130–135|jstor=25676929}}
  • Naturalism (with Charles Taliaferro, 2008)
  • A Brief History of the Soul (with Charles Taliaferro, 2011){{cite journal|author=Farris, Joshua|year=2012|title=Stewart Goetz and Charles Taliaferro. A Brief History of the Soul|journal=European Journal for Philosophy of Religion|url=https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/index.php/ejpr/article/view/317|volume=4|issue=1|pages=253–259|doi=10.24204/ejpr.v4i1.317}}
  • 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){{cite journal|author=Wessling, Jordan|year=2016|title=Reviewed Work: The Purpose of Life: A Theistic Perspective by Goetz Stewart|journal=The Journal of Religion|volume=96|issue=1|pages=134–135|jstor=26543479}}
  • [https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315758206-56/free-substance-dualism-stewart-goetz Free Will and Substance Dualism]. In The Routledge Companion to Free Will (2016)
  • [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119468004.ch19 Against Animalism] In The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism (2018)
  • C.S. Lewis (2018){{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2024|title=C.S. Lewis: Blackwell Great Minds|url=https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/C-S-Lewis-by-Stewart-Goetz/9781119190066|website=Blackwell's|language=en-GB|archive-date=|archive-url=}}{{cite journal|author=McNaughton, David|year=2019|title=Stewart Goetz, C.S. Lewis|journal=Journal of Inklings Studies|url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/ink.2019.0051|volume=9|issue=2|pages=208–212|doi=10.3366/ink.2019.0051|url-access=subscription}}

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