A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person Hud Hudson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hudson, Hud, 1964- ..., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morale.

materialisme--personne (philosophie).

materialisme.

Personne (philosophie).

Anthropologie.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 202 pages)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Ithaca (N.Y.) : Cornell University Press, op. 2001.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. A MATERIALIST METAPHYSICS OF THE HUMAN PERSON

Chapter 1. The Many Problematic Solutions to the Problem of the Many

Chapter 2. Persistence and the Partist View

Chapter 3. Vagueness and Composition

Chapter 4. The Criterion of Personal Identity

Chapter 5. A Portrait of the Human Person

PART II. APPLICATIONS: ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Chapter 6. Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts

Chapter 7. Nothing But Dust and Ashes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliogr. p. 193-198. Index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-2571-8

OCLC:

1083619179