Abstract
Although cognitive science has often been presented as offering a purely materialist theory of intelligence, in fact it is compatible with a dualist picture that includes souls as well. First, cognitive science is neutral as to what kind of thing is doing its computations, material or not. Second, cognitive science is incomplete as a theory of the mind: it works well for automatic subconscious information processing, but has no account of abductive reasoning, free will, intentionality, or conscious experience. Finally, cognitive scientific accounts of why people all over the world believe in some kind of soul are technically incomplete and neutral as to whether those beliefs are in fact true or not.
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