Stewart Goetz

Stewart Goetz is an American philosopher and writer.

Goetz obtained a PhD in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.^[1] He a professor in Philosophy and Religion at Ursinus College.^[1] He has defended substance dualism.^[2][3] Goetz is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center on Culture and Civil Society at the Independent Institute.^[4] He has debated physicalist Andrew Melnyk on consciousness and free will at Internet Infidels.^[5]

Selected publications

• Substance Dualism In The Ashgate Research Companion to Theological Anthropology (1991)
• Freedom, Teleology, and Evil (2008)^[6][7]
• Naturalism (with Charles Taliaferro, 2008)
• A Brief History of the Soul (with Charles Taliaferro, 2011)^[3][8]
• The Soul Hypothesis (with Mark Baker, 2011)^[2]
• The Routledge Companion to Theism (with Charles Taliaferro and Victoria Harrison, 2012)
• The Purpose of Life: A Theistic Perspective (2012)^[9]
• 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)^[10][11]