The Metaphysics of Hyperspace / Edition 1

by Hud Hudson

Overview

Hud Hudson offers a fascinating examination of philosophical reasons to believe in hyperspace. He explores non-theistic reasons in the first chapter and theistic ones towards the end; in the intervening sections he inquires into a variety of puzzles in the metaphysics of material objects that are either generated by the hypothesis of hyperspace or else informed by it, with discussions of receptacles, boundaries, contact, occupation, and superluminal motion. Anyone engaged with contemporary metaphysics, and many philosophers of religion, will find much to stimulate them here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199282579
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/19/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Hud Hudson is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Concerning some philosophical reasons to believe in hyperspace2. Receptacles: hosts and guests3. Contact and boundaries4. Extended simples and diachronic identity5. Superluminal motion and superluminal causation6. Mirror determinism and mirror incompatibilism7. Hyperspace and theism8. Hyperspace and Christianity

Editorial Reviews

"Hudson is a master at making sophisticated work in metaphysics accessible and engaging without sacrificing rigor."—Cody Gilmore, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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