Selections from the Phaedo -- Selections from Meditations on First Philosophy -- Selections from Personal Identity: the Dualist Theory -- Selections from Summa Theologiae -- Terra es animata: On having a life -- An argument for animalism -- Selection from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding -- The unimportance of identity -- Persons -- Real selves: persons as a substantial kind -- The ontological status of persons -- Selections from Part III of Mind, Self, and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist -- The impact of the concept of culture on the concept of man -- Selection from Personal Being -- Selection from Dementia Reconsidered: the Person comes First -- Freedom of the will and the concept of a person -- Jewish perspectives on abortion -- When do people begin? -- Thomism and the beginning of personhood -- Individuals, humans, and persons: the issue of moral status -- On the moral and legal status of abortion -- Ethics and embryos -- When does a person begin? -- The biophilosophical basis of whole-brain death -- The definition of death in Jewish law -- An unfounded diagnosis: revisiting the medical and metaphysical justifications of "brain death" -- St. Thomas on the beginning and ending of human life -- The impending collapse of the whole-brain definition of death -- Against the stream: comments on the definition and redefinition of death -- Brain death and personal identity -- On the definition of death -- Selection from Controversies in the Determination of Death: a White Paper.
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