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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction Why Any of This Matters | |
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| Implications of a Human Machine | |
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| Ghosts, Machines, and the nature of Light | |
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| Three Views of Mind and Consciousness | |
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| The Debate: Experiments of Thought and of Science | |
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| The Debate and Its Physicalists� Presuppositions | |
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| Where Do We Go? | |
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| Physicalism, Creativity, and Heroism | |
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| A Materialist View | |
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| The Abolition of Creativity and Heroism | |
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| An Attempted Physicalist Recovery of Creativity | |
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| Living without �Freedom and Dignity� | |
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| naturalism and Nature: The Ecology of Physicalism | |
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| Virtual Reality and the Disembodied Human | |
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| The Absence of �Other� | |
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| Reason, Science, and the Mind as a Physical Brain | |
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| The Possibility of Reason | |
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| The Presuppositions of Science | |
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| Considering the Presuppositions | |
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| The Spiritual Human | |
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| Affirming the Creative and the Heroic | |
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| Mythical Dialogues: The Hr�a and F�a of J. R. R. Tolkien | |
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| The Source of Human Creativity | |
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| Tolkiens Threefold Telos of Creativity | |
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| Creativity Beauty and the Enrichment of Creation | |
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| Art and Truth | |
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| Taking Heroism Seriously | |
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| Body, Spirit, and the Value of Creation | |
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| Purposeful Creation and Ecological Practice | |
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| The Cosmos and Human Moral Responsibility | |
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| Ecology and the Bodily Resurrection | |
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| A Biblical Defense of Reason and Science | |
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| Can Reason and Spirituality Sleep in the Same Bed? | |
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| The Importance of Evidence to the Prophers and Apostles | |
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| Jesus and Reason | |
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| Judeo-Christian Theism and the Validity of Science | |
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| Limitations of Reason and Science | |
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| The Integrated Person | |
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| Ghosts and Buttons | |
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| Spirituality, Physicality, and Creation | |
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| Wind in the Trees and the Integration of Body and Spirit | |
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| Science, Ecology, and Ethics | |
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| Works Cited | |
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| Recommended Further Reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |