Amihud Gilead was born in Jerusalem in 1947. He is married to Ruth and the father of Amir and Inbal. From 1989 till 1993, he was the chairperson of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published four books and papers on Spinoza, Kant, and Plato in English and Hebrew. His previous books, The Platonic Odyssey: A Philosophical-Literary Inquiry into the Phaedo, and Saving Possibilities: A Study in Philosophical Psychology, appeared respectively in 1994 and in 1999 in this Series (Volumes 17 and 80).

• Foreword by Robert GinsbergPrefaceONE Love and SingularityTWO Private, Intersubjective, and Public AccessibilityTHREE Multiple PersonalityFOUR Security and Its FearsFIVE BetrayalSIX The Illusion of Virtual CommunicationSEVEN Casual Causality and the Reality of FreedomEIGHT The Panenmentalist Possibility of AkrasiaNINE Different Narratives of the Same ActualityTEN A Way Out of the Empiricist-Rationalist ConundrumELEVEN The Possibility of GodWorks CitedAbout the AuthorIndex