kiss of a being called a dementor. And the contemporary antidualist philosopher John Searle reports that “[w]hen I lectured on the mind-body problem in India [I] was assured by several members of my audience that my views must be mistaken, because they personally had existed in their earlier lives as frogs or elephants, etc.” (Searle 1992, 91). The cogency of naturalism can be measured to the extent that it can show this nonnaturalist dualist view of people to be mistaken. Assessing strict naturalism,