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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.
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.
Hud Hudson presents an innovative view of the metaphysics of human
persons according to which human persons are material objects but
not human organisms. In developing his account, he formulates and
defends a unique collection of positions on parthood, persistence,
vagueness, composition, identity, and various puzzles of material
constitution.The author also applies his materialist metaphysics to
issues in ethics and in the philosophy of religion. He examines the
implications for ethics of his metaphysical views for standard
arguments addressing the moral permissibility of our treatment of
human persons and their parts, fetuses and infants, the
irreversibly comatose, and corpses. He argues that his metaphysics
provides the best foundation in the philosophy of religion for the
Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body.Hudson addresses
a broad range of metaphysical issues, but among his most strikingly
original contributions are his defense of the "Partist" view
(according to which a material object can exactly occupy multiple,
overlapping regions of spacetime) and his argument for the
compatibility of Christianity with a materialistic theory of human
persons.
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