"This work is about Platos dialogue Phaedo, and its two central themes: the immortality of the human Soul, and the reality of entities known as Forms. It analyses in detail the four major arguments of the Phaedo and discusses such topics as: the nature of the Soul; what it is to be something; the morality of suicide; the possibility of reincarnation; the idea that we know something from before we were born; the status of causal laws; and the adequacy conditions for statements involving them. Throughout there is discussion of Platonic Forms, to which the entirety of Chapter 3 is devoted; and a difference among them, that between Forms in nature, and Forms in us, is made in the final Chapter. Throughout I argue that the best available model for the relation between a Form and its participants is the relation between a type and its tokens. Types have nothing in common with their tokens except for sharing a name"-- Provided by publisher.