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| Preface | |
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| A Point of Departure | |
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| Focus and Methodology | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Competing Anthropological Perspectives | |
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| Human Nature and Personhood | |
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| Toward a Metaphysics of Personhood | |
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| A General Overview: Content and Approach | |
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| From Psyche to Anthropos | |
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| In the Beginning: Defining Some Key Issues | |
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| The Transition from Myth to Reason | |
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| The Milesian Response | |
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| Two Metaphysical Responses | |
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| The Move toward Reconciliation | |
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| The Pythagorean Contribution | |
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| The Anthropological Significance of It All | |
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| Plato: The Primacy of Soul | |
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| The Shift toward Humanism | |
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| The Sophistic Legacy | |
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| Enter Socrates | |
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| Socrates and Plato | |
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| The Psychology of the Phaedo | |
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| The Philosophical Way of Life | |
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| Arguments for the Soul's Immortality | |
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| The Nature of Soul and Body | |
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| Two Epiphenomenalist Theories | |
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| Mind and Causality | |
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| The Forms as Causes | |
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| Concluding Myth | |
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| The Broader Anthropological Dimension | |
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| The Psychology of the Republic | |
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| Aristotle: The Human Composite | |
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| Aristotle's Background and Development | |
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| Theoretical Knowledge and Wisdom | |
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| The Nature of Wisdom and Causality | |
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| Aristotle and Plato | |
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| Being and Substance | |
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| Substance and Change | |
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| Aristotle's Psychology | |
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| Soul, Body, and the Separable Intellect | |
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| Human Nature and Personhood | |
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| St. Augustine: A Harmonious Union | |
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| The Challenge of Christian Anthropology | |
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| Augustine's Personal Experience | |
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| Manichaeism and the Problem of Evil | |
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| Augustine's Neoplatonic Lens | |
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| Augustine's Definitions of Homo | |
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| Augustine on the Person | |
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| The Subjective Ego | |
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| Moral and Cosmic Order | |
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| St. Thomas Aquinas: A Subsistent Individual | |
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| A Teacher's Life | |
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| Aquinas on Sacra Doctrina | |
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| A Metaphysics of Esse | |
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| Humans Beings, Being Human | |
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| The Fact of Psychosomatic Union | |
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| Aquinas's Metaphysics of Personhood | |
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| The Person as Free Agent | |
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| Minds and Bodies | |
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| Rene Descartes: The Ghost in the Machine | |
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| Descartes and His Mission | |
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| A Believing Man of Reason | |
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| Forging a Method | |
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| Affirming the Cogito | |
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| The Role of God | |
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| The Challenge of Hyperbolic Doubt | |
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| That I Am, What I Am | |
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| An Experiment | |
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| Mind, Body, and World | |
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| The Bodily Mechanism | |
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| Mind-Body Interaction: An Uneasy Alliance | |
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| Where Mind and Body Meet | |
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| Assessing the Cartesian Compromise | |
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| David Hume: A Bundle of Perceptions | |
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| Hume's Newtonian Model | |
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| A Science of Human Nature | |
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| The Origin of Ideas | |
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| Hume on Causality | |
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| Personal Identity and the Self | |
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| Assessing Hume on Personal Identity | |
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| Humanity and Personhood | |
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| Postmodernism: Humans, Persons, and Nonpersons | |
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| Postmodern Philosophy: A Broad Overview | |
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| The Consciousness Criterion of Personhood | |
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| The Bioethical Dimension | |
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| Postmodernism and Incommensurability | |
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| Our Interpersonal Journey | |
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| A Teleological Model | |
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| An Infinite Horizon | |
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| Knowing and Willing | |
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| A Participation Scheme | |
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| The Being of Persons | |
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| Subsistence and Selfhood | |
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| Substantiality and Relationality | |
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| Embodied Spirits | |
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| The Unity of Self | |
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| A Moral Cosmos | |
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| Life as Quest | |
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| Epilogue: In Search of an Irreducible Self | |
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| The Challenge of Reductionism | |
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| A Quantum Theory of Consciousness | |
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| The Causal Role of Mind | |
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| Human and Animal Intelligence | |
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| Embodied Spirits and Our World | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |