Abstract

Deplores the fact that scientists and philosophers largely ignore parapsychological phenomena or declare them impossible on a priori grounds. This is harmful to philosophy since it means that evidence is ignored which could give new insight on traditional philosophical problems. This point is illustrated by an examination of T. Penelhum's Survival and Disembodied Existence (1970), in which, by ignoring some areas of parapsychology, Penelhum reaches inadequate conclusions both as to the identity of personality and as to the logical possibility of survival of death.