The metaphysics of hyperspace / Hud Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Hud.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Fourth dimension.

Physical Description:

xi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Concerning some philosophical reasons to believe in hyperspace

Receptacles : hosts and guests

Contact and boundaries

Extended simples and diachoric identity

Superluminal motion and superluminal causation

Mirror determinism and mirror incompatibilism

Hyperspace and theism

Hyperspace and Christianity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-214) and index.

ISBN:

0199282579

OCLC:

61204313

Publisher Number:

9780199282579 (acid-free paper)