ABSTRACT
Even those few who admire the Analogy tend to have a low view of its first chapter. This is partly because they expect more from it than Butler explicitly promises, but also because he claims more than he has delivered. I shall argue that Butler’s arguments are enough to establish the logical possibility of some form of life after death, but not to give it any degree of probability. He thinks that they give it a substantial degree of likelihood; whereas a careful scrutiny of them is enough to show that at best they provide answers to common attacks on the belief in survival.
