The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

Intends to treat the major figures who have advanced the Achilles argument, or who have held views bearing on it.

In his Second Paralogism of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant described what he called the "Achilles of all dialectical inferences in the pure doctrine of the soul". This argument, which he took to be powerful yet fatally flawed, purports to establish the simplicity of the human mind, or soul, on the basis of the unity of consciousness. It is the aim of this volume to treat the major figures who have advanced the Achilles argument, or who have held views bearing on it.

Introduction
T.M. Lennon, R.J. Stainton.- 1. Did Plato Articulate the Achilles Argument? K.M. Nielsen.- 2. Aristotle and the Achilles Argument
J. Thorp.- 3. The Achilles Argument in Neoplatonism
D. Henry.- 4. The Unity of the Soul and Contrary Appetites in Medieval Philosophy
H. Lagerlund.- 5. Hume, Spinoza and the Achilles Inference
S. Dea.- 6. Locke and the Achilles Argument
J.-P. Schachter.- 7. A Brief Note on the Reverse Achilles in Locke
B. Hill.- 8. Cudworth and Bayle: An Odd Couple? T.M. Lennon.- 9. The Achilles Argument and the Nature of Matter in the Clarke-Collins Correspondence
M. Rozemond.- 10. Leibniz's Achilles
J.-P. Schachter.- 11. Hume's Response to the Achilles Argument
L. Falkenstein.- 12. Kant, Mendelsohn, and the Implications of the 'I think': Paralogism? B. Sassen.- 13. Kant on the Achilles Argument
W. Harper.- 14. William James and the Achilles Argument
H. Brown.- 15. The Binding Problem: Achilles in the 21st Century
C. Viger, R. Bluhm, S. Mosurinjohn.- Bibliography.