Consciousness and the Existence of God

In this work, J.P.

Moreland argues that finite, irreducible consciousness (or its regular, law-like correlation with physical states) constitutes evidence for God's existence.

The book systematically analyzes and critiques rival naturalistic approaches to explaining consciousness, including John Searle's contingent correlation, Timothy O'Connor's emergent necessitation, Colin McGinn's mysterian naturalism, David Skrbina's panpsychism, and Philip Clayton's pluralistic emergentist monism.

Moreland presents his Argument from Consciousness as an inference to the best explanation, demonstrating why theistic explanations better account for the existence of conscious beings than naturalistic frameworks.