Theo Todman's Web Page - Notes Pages

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Angel (Leonard) - Is There Adequate Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? An Analysis of Ian Stevenson’s Work", 2015
  2. "Edwards (Paul) - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination", 2002, Book, Read
  3. "Penelhum (Terence) - 'Reincarnation'", 1970, No Abstract
  4. "Perrett (Roy W.) - Rebirth", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
  5. "Ransom (Champe) - A Critique of Ian Stevenson’s Rebirth Research", 2015
  6. "Smythe (Ingrid Hansen) - Objections to Karma and Rebirth: An Introduction", 2015
  7. "Stevenson (Ian) - Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation", 2001 (Revised Edition), Book, Read = 1%
• For a page of Links¹¹ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹², include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface", 1992
    2. "Barua (Ankur) - Revisiting the Rationality of Reincarnation-Talk", 2015, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Edwards (Paul) - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination", 2002, Book
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death", 1992, Book, Read = 2%
    2. "Angel (Leonard) - Is There Adequate Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? An Analysis of Ian Stevenson’s Work", 2015
    3. "Dilley (Frank B.) - Review of Robert Almeder 'Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life after Death'", 1995, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Ducasse (C.J.) - Survival As Transmigration", 1997, No Abstract
    5. "Filice (Carlo) - The moral case for reincarnation", 2006, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Hales (Steven D.) - Reincarnation Redux", 2001, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    7. "Johnson (Raynor) - Preexistence, Reincarnation and Karma", 1997, No Abstract
    8. "Leslie (John) - Review of Paul Edwards: 'Reincarnation'", 1998, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    9. "MacIntosh (J.J.) - Reincarnation and Relativized Identity", 1989, Internal PDF Link, Read = 42%
    10. "MacIntosh (J.J.) - Reincarnation, Closest Continuers, and The Three Card Trick: A Reply To Noonan And Daniels", 1992, Internal PDF Link, Read = 13%
    11. "Martin (Raymond) - Review of Paul Edwards. Reincarnation: A Critical Examination", 1997, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Noonan (Harold) - The Possibility of Reincarnation", 1990, Internal PDF Link, Read = 100%
    13. "Penelhum (Terence) - 'Reincarnation'", 1970, No Abstract
    14. "Perrett (Roy W.) - Rebirth", 1987, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    15. "Ransom (Champe) - A Critique of Ian Stevenson’s Rebirth Research", 2015
    16. "Smythe (Ingrid Hansen) - Objections to Karma and Rebirth: An Introduction", 2015
    17. "Stevenson (Ian) - Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation", 2001 (Revised Edition), Book, Read = 1%
    18. "Walter (Tony) - Reincarnation, Modernity and Identity", 2001, Internal PDF Link

  ---

• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder¹³.

Table of the Previous 9 Versions of this Note:

Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.

Summary of Notes Citing This Note

To access information, click on one of the links in the table above.

Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Aeon	Video - By the river	Paper		Yes
Aeon	Video - What science tells us about the afterlife	Paper		Yes
Almeder (Robert)	Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death	Book
Almeder (Robert)	Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Yes
Almeder (Robert)	Possession	Paper
Almeder (Robert)	Reincarnation	Paper	2, 3
Angel (Leonard)	Is There Adequate Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? An Analysis of Ian Stevenson’s Work	Paper	2
Badham (Paul) & Badham (Linda)	Immortality or Extinction: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Death and the Afterlife	Paper	2, 3
Barua (Ankur)	Revisiting the Rationality of Reincarnation-Talk	Paper		Yes
Blackburn (Simon)	Has Kant Refuted Parfit?	Paper
Brandon (Ed)	Review of David Lund's 'Persons, Souls and Death'	Paper		Yes
Braude (Stephen)	Personal Identity and Post-Mortem Survival	Paper
Buzzi (Giorgio)	Correspondence: Near-Death Experiences	Paper		Yes
Carruthers (Peter)	After-Life for Materialists	Paper		Yes
Carruthers (Peter)	After-Life for Physicalists	Paper		Yes
Chopra (Deepak) & Hameroff (Stuart)	Can science explain the soul?	Paper	2
Dalal (Mihir)	Inventing Hindu supremacy	Paper		Yes
Daniels (Charles)	Personal Identity	Paper
Dennett (Daniel)	The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul: Introduction	Paper	2	Yes
Di Muzio (Gianluca)	Reincarnation and infinite punishment in hell	Paper
Dilley (Frank B.)	Review of Robert Almeder 'Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life after Death'	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Dresser (Sam)	How to not fear your death	Paper		Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Child Prodigies, déjà vu Experiences, and Group Reincarnations	Paper		Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Immortality: Introduction	Paper	2, 3
Edwards (Paul)	More about Dr. Ian Stevenson, the 'Galileo of Reincarnation'	Paper	2	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	More Hypnotic Regressions and 'Progressions'	Paper		Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation, Karma, and Competing Doctrines of Survival	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation: A Critical Examination - Introduction	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Population Problem and Other Commonsense and Scientific Objections	Paper		Yes
Edwards (Paul), Ed.	Immortality	Book	2, 3, 4
FT, Borkataky-Varma (Sravana)	Five Books - The Best Books on Hinduism	Paper		Yes
Gasser (Georg), Ed.	Personal Identity and Resurrection: How Do We Survive Our Death?	Book
Geach (Peter)	God and the Soul (Analytical ToC)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Hains (Brigid) & Hains (Paul)	Aeon: 2019+	Paper		Yes
Hales (Steven D.)	Evidence and the Afterlife	Paper	2
Hales (Steven D.)	Reincarnation Redux	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Hershenov (David)	Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'	Paper		Yes
Hick (John)	An Irenaean Theodicy: Response to Critiques	Paper		Yes
Hick (John)	Death and Eternal Life	Book
Hick (John)	Death and Eternal Life	Paper
Hick (John)	Death and Eternal Life	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Hofstadter (Douglas) & Dennett (Daniel), Eds.	The Mind's I - Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul	Book
Johnston (Mark)	What Is Found At The Center?	Paper
Kolak (Daniel)	I Am You: The Metaphysical Foundations for Global Ethics	Book
Lester (David)	Is There Life After Death? A Review of the Supporting Evidence	Paper
MacIntosh (J.J.)	Reincarnation and Relativized Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
MacIntosh (J.J.)	Reincarnation, Closest Continuers, and The Three Card Trick: A Reply To Noonan And Daniels	Paper	2, 3
Martin (Raymond)	Review of Paul Edwards. Reincarnation: A Critical Examination	Paper	2, 3
Mavrodes (George I.)	The Life Everlasting and the Bodily Criterion of Identity	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	The Possibility of Reincarnation	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Olson (Eric)	Life After Death and the Devastation of the Grave	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Thinking Animals and the Constitution View	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Penelhum (Terence)	Immortality: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Penelhum (Terence)	Survival and Disembodied Existence	Book
Perrett (Roy W.)	Rebirth	Paper	2
Ransom (Champe)	A Critique of Ian Stevenson’s Rebirth Research	Paper
Rawlings (Maurice S.)	To Hell and Back: Life after Death - Startling New Evidence	Paper
Rivas (Titus)	Rebirth and Personal Identity: Is Reincarnation an Intrinsically Impersonal Concept?	Paper	2, 3
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Personal Identity: a Materialist Account	Paper
Smith (Quentin)	Time, Change and Freedom: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Stewart-Williams (Steve)	On the Origin of Afterlife Beliefs by Means of Memetic Selection	Paper		Yes
Swinburne (Richard)	The Future of the Soul	Paper
Talbot (Mary)	The good death	Paper		Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Plato's Phaedo	Paper		Yes
Thomas (Janice L.)	Psychological continuity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Biological View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Buddhism	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 12 (Conclusion)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Clones	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Dualism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hylomorphism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Immortality	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Interregnum	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Life After Death	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Physical Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Religion	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Resurrection	Paper		Yes
Unger (Peter)	All the Power in the World	Book
Unger (Peter)	Why We May Become Disembodied, But To No Avail	Paper	2
Various	Papers & Books Yet To Be Logged	Book
Walter (Tony)	Reincarnation, Modernity and Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4
Williams (Bernard)	The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality	Paper	2, 3	Yes

---

References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Almeder (Robert)	Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death	Book - Cited	Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death	2%
Almeder (Robert)	Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death - Preface	Paper - Cited	Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death	Yes
Almeder (Robert)	Reincarnation	Paper - By Subtopic	Almeder (Robert) - Death and Personal Survival: Evidence for Life After Death, Chapter 1	No
Angel (Leonard)	Is There Adequate Empirical Evidence for Reincarnation? An Analysis of Ian Stevenson’s Work	Paper - Cited	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 4, Chapter 27	No
Barua (Ankur)	Revisiting the Rationality of Reincarnation-Talk	Paper - Cited	International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 2015	Yes
Battista (Christian), Gauvrit (Nicolas) & LeBel (Etienne)	Madness in the Method: Fatal Flaws in Recent Mediumship Experiments	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 4, Chapter 29	No
Blackmore (Susan)	Out-of-Body Experiences are not Evidence for Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 4, Chapter 24	No
Daniels (Charles)	Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, 6.3, 1969, pp. 226-232	No
Dilley (Frank B.)	Review of Robert Almeder 'Death and Personal Survival: The Evidence for Life after Death'	Paper - Cited	International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jun., 1995), pp. 185-188	No
Ducasse (C.J.)	Survival As Transmigration	Paper - Cited	Edwards - Immortality, pp, 194-199	No
Edwards (Paul)	Child Prodigies, déjà vu Experiences, and Group Reincarnations	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 4	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Dr. Grof, LSD, and the Amorous Snake-Woman	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 13	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Dr. Kubler-Ross, Dr. Moody, and the New Immortality Movement	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 11	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Irreverent Postscript: God and the Modus Operandi Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Postscript	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	More about Dr. Ian Stevenson, the 'Galileo of Reincarnation'	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 16	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	More Hypnotic Regressions and 'Progressions'	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 6	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation, Karma, and Competing Doctrines of Survival	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 1	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation: A Critical Examination	Book - Cited	Edwards (Paul) - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Reincarnation: A Critical Examination - Introduction	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Introduction	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Spontaneous Memories of Earlier Lives	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 7	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	Telephone Calls from the Dead, Birth Marks, and the Modus Operandi Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 10	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Astral Body	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 9	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Conservation of Spiritual Energy	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 8	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Dependence of Consciousness on the Brain	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 17	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Fantasies of Dr. Kubler-Ross	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 12	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The 'Interregnum': What Happens Between Lives?	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 15	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Law of Karma	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 3	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Moral Argument	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 2	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Population Problem and Other Commonsense and Scientific Objections	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 14	Yes
Edwards (Paul)	The Rise and Fall of Bridey Murphy	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Reincarnation: A Critical Examination, 2002, Chapter 5	Yes
Edwards (Paul), Ed.	Immortality	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Edwards (Paul), Ed. - Immortality	4%
Edwards (Paul), Ed.	Immortality	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	4%
Filice (Carlo)	The moral case for reincarnation	Paper - Cited	Religious Studies (2006), 42: 45-61	No
Grossman (Neal)	Four Errors Commonly Made by Professional Debunkers	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Near Death Studies, 2008, 26, 231-8	22%
Hales (Steven D.)	Evidence and the Afterlife	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophia, vol. 28, nos. 1-4, pp. 335-346, 2001	17%
Hales (Steven D.)	Reincarnation Redux	Paper - Cited	Philosophia, vol. 28, nos. 1-4, pp. 359-367. 2001	22%
Interaction	Correspondence with Frank Hoare	Paper - By Subtopic		17%
Johnson (Raynor)	Preexistence, Reincarnation and Karma	Paper - Cited	Edwards - Immortality, pp, 188-193	No
Leslie (John)	Review of Paul Edwards: 'Reincarnation'	Paper - Cited	Philosophical Books; Oct1998, Vol. 39 Issue 4, p275, 6p	No
MacIntosh (J.J.)	Reincarnation and Relativized Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 153-165	42%
MacIntosh (J.J.)	Reincarnation, Closest Continuers, and The Three Card Trick: A Reply To Noonan And Daniels	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies, Vol. 28, pp. 235-251. 1992	13%
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith) - The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	15%
Martin (L. Michael) & Augustine (Keith)	The Myth of an Afterlife: The Case against Life After Death	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	15%
Martin (Raymond)	Review of Paul Edwards. Reincarnation: A Critical Examination	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies, 33, Issue 03, September 1997, pp 349-352	No
Noonan (Harold)	The Possibility of Reincarnation	Paper - By Subtopic	Religious Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec., 1990), pp. 483-491	56%
Penelhum (Terence)	'Reincarnation'	Paper - Cited	Penelhum - Survival and Disembodied Existence, 1970, Chapter 8	No
Penelhum (Terence)	Survival and Disembodied Existence	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	No
Perrett (Roy W.)	Death and Immortality	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	3%
Perrett (Roy W.)	Rebirth	Paper - Cited	Perrett - Death and Immortality - 1987, Chapter 8	17%
Ransom (Champe)	A Critique of Ian Stevenson’s Rebirth Research	Paper - Cited	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 4, Chapter 26	No
Smythe (Ingrid Hansen)	Objections to Karma and Rebirth: An Introduction	Paper - Cited	Martin & Augustine - The Myth of an Afterlife, Part 3, Chapter 22	No
Stevenson (Ian)	Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation	Book - Cited	Stevenson (Ian) - Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation	1%
Stevenson (Ian)	Children Who Remember Previous Lives: A Question of Reincarnation	Paper - By Subtopic	Stevenson - Children Who Remember Past Lives	2%
Tertullian	The Refutation of the Pythagorean Doctrine of Transmigration	Paper - By Subtopic	Edwards - Immortality, pp, 88-90	No
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reincarnation	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Walter (Tony)	Reincarnation, Modernity and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Sociology Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 21–38. 2001	No
Williams (Paul)	Response to Mark Siderits' Review	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy East & West, Jul2000, Vol. 50 Issue 3, p424, 30p;	No

Text Colour Conventions

1. Blue: Text by me; © Theo Todman, 2026