Introduction "[An] alarmed call to arms": Cognitive Science, the Humanities, and the End of Postmodernism Wallace's Humanist Fiction "Theory after 'Theory'" How to Read Wallace's Mind 1. "It's much more boneheaded and practical than that": Authorship and the Body The Death of David Foster Wallace The Mind behind Wallace's Work "Cognitive Questions" "The Nature of the Fun" 2. "He's a ghost haunting his own body": Cartesian Dualism in Wallace's Ghost Stories Wallace the Posthumanist Interiority in the Early Stories "I am soul" "Forever Overhead" Dualism in The Pale King "I desire to believe" 3. "The heat just past the glass doors": Therapy, Madness, and Metaphor "A very glib guy"? "Looking at stuff under glass" Wallace's Treatment of Doctors "A hell for one" 4. "(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect": Free Will, Addiction, and the Self "Both flesh and not" Free Will vs. the Body Free Will after Postmodernism "An individual person's basic personal powerlessness" "Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell" stuff under glass" Wallace's Treatment of Doctors "A hell for one" 4. "(At Least) Three Cheers for Cause and Effect": Free Will, Addiction, and the Self "Both flesh and not" Free Will vs. the Body Free Will after Postmodernism "An individual person's basic personal powerlessness" "Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell".