ID and Philosophy of Mind
At Telicthoughts, in The Quiet Revolution, Steve Petermann makes some interesting observations about ID and philosophy of mind. There has been a shift away from strict materialist metaphysics among some eminent philosphy of mind philosophers He contrasts the reaction of the philosophy community to a shift toward forms of dualism and the reaction of the scientific community toward intelligent design.
[Clarification by Jeremy: Unfortunately, this "shift towards forms of dualism" is not anything like the body/soul dualism that most Christians believe in. There is still a very very small minority of philosophers of mind who accept this sort of dualism, called substance dualism. Rather, what many philosophers of mind are now accepting is what is called property dualism. Although they still insist that a human person has no soul that is separate to his body, they are realizing that mental properties cannot be reduced to physical (neurological) properties. It's hard to spell out exactly the way this view works without a lot of groundwork being laid first, but generally and simply speaking, a property dualist would say that you are still identical with your body (or perhaps your brain), but it is the case that your body has strictly physical properties, and it also has emergent, mental properties that, in the words of Kim "stay outside the physical domain."
The key thing to remember, however, is that although this shift does not reflect the substance dualism that seems to be implied by the Bible (and that is intuitive to most people), it is still a shift towards antimaterialism. Besides this shift itself, which would help the ID movement if it catches on in other disciplines, these philosophers should be applauded for accepting the fact that if a certain theory cannot do justice to the way things are, one should look elsewhere, even if better solutions transcend the mere physical.]