Hud Hudson offers a fascinating examination of philosophical
reasons to believe in hyperspace. He begins with some stage-setting
discussions, offering his analysis of the term "material object,"
noting his adherence to substantivalism, confessing his sympathies
regarding principles of composition and decomposition, identifying
his views on material simples, material gunk, and the persistence
of material objects, and preparing the reader for later discussions
with introductory remarks on eternalism, modality and
recombination, vagueness, bruteness, and the epistemic role of
intuitions. The subsequent chapters are loosely organized around
the theme of hyperspace. Hudson explores nontheistic reasons to
believe in hyperspace in chapter 1 (e.g. reasons arising from
reflection on incongruent counterparts and fine-tuning arguments),
theistic reasons in chapter 7 (e.g. reasons arising from reflection
on theistic puzzles known as the problem of the best and the
problem of evil), and some distinctively Christian reasons in
chapter 8 (e.g. reasons arising from reflection on traditional
Christian themes such as heaven and hell, the Garden of Eden,
angels and demons, and new testament miracles). In the intervening
chapters, Hudson inquires into a variety of puzzles in the
metaphysics of material objects that are either generated by the
hypothesis of hyperspace, focusing on the topics of mirror
determinism and mirror incompatibilism, or else informed by the
hypothesis of hyperspace, with discussions of receptacles,
boundaries, contact, occupation, and superluminal motion.
Anyone engaged with contemporary metaphysics will find much to
stimulate them here.
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