R. William Hasker (/ˈhæskər/; born 1935) is an American philosopher and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Huntington University.
He has published many journal articles and books dealing with issues such as the mind–body problem, theodicy, and divine omniscience.
[1] Hasker has argued for open theism and a view known as emergent dualism regarding the nature of the human person.
[4] He argues that emergent dualism supports free will, mental causation, rationality and survival of physical death and is compatible with neuroscientific discoveries showing the dependence of mind on brain and evolutionary theory.
[5] Emergent dualism has been criticized by other substance dualist philosophers including Frank B. Dilley and Stewart Goetz.