Cory Wilson, MD, MA (philosophy)
Practices full-time emergency medicine in Southern California. He is interested in issues at the intersection of Christian theology, philosophy, and medicine, focusing most closely on philosophy of mind and the mind-body problem.
WORKSHOP ABSTRACT:
Personal ontology is about answering the question, What are we? Are human beings just bodies? Animals? Souls? The debate between the biopsychosocial and biomedical models is the closest there is to a discussion of the topic in mainstream medicine, and neither allows for the existence of soul. In general terms some form of dualism, on the other hand, must be true. It is both the best answer to the question, What are we?, from on ontological perspective, and it comports with Christian orthodoxy. This paper discusses the philosophical issues at stake and argues that only some form of dualism satisfies the philosophical issues.