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Tables of Contents for Merely Mortal?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction
xi
Three Ways to Survival
1
18
Establishing two fundamentals
2
6
Possible routes around or over the obstacle
8
11
Plato: (i) From Preexistence to Immortality
19
16
Remarkable assumptions unremarked
19
10
Reminiscence of preexistence
29
6
Plato: (ii) Attempted Proofs of Immortality
35
18
Two concepts of soul
36
2
The good life and the principle of life
38
4
Two anaemic arguments
42
2
Everlasting lives and timeless Ideas
44
6
Plato defends Platonic assumptions
50
3
Plato: (iii) Intimations of Immateriality
53
18
Unmoved movement and acting for reasons; both supposed immaterial
54
5
Causes and choices
59
8
Inconceivables, or commonplaces?
67
4
Aristotle and Aquinas
71
18
Aristotle, and the immortality of the intellect
72
6
The expedients of Aquinas
78
11
The Cartesian Turn
89
18
Myself essentially a thinking substance
92
5
Three consequences of incorporeality
97
10
Personal Identity: (i) Conceivable Differences?
107
20
Contemporary objections to the Cartesian Conceivability Contention
108
1
The Imaginability Thesis
109
9
Personal identity and material continuity
118
9
Personal Identity: (ii) Uniting Memories?
127
18
The implications of open texture
131
5
Memory proposed as the uniting principle
136
6
Personality and personhood
142
3
Substances, Stuff and Consciousness
145
20
No-ownership, Serial Theories of the Self
146
5
Direct knowledge of bodiless continuity?
151
1
The traditional mind-body problem
152
7
The Mind/Brain Identity Theory
159
6
The Significance of Parapsychology
165
20
The evidential situation
167
4
Platonic-Cartesian assumptions in parapsychology
171
9
What would bodilessness be like, and for whom or what?
180
5
Bibliography
185
12
Name Index
197