The Metaphysics of Hyperspace

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.

Introduction

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on classical logic and neighboring matters

on material objects

on substantivalism

on relations to regions

on composition and decomposition

on simples and gunk

on persistence and change

on eternalism

on modality and recombination

on vagueness

on bruteness

on intuitions

on theism

on hyperspace and topology

Chapter 1 Concerning Some Philosophical Reasons to Believe in Hyperspace

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§1 Two Voices from Konigsberg

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§2 Incongruent Counterparts and Hyperspace

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§3 The Problem of Temporally Incongruent Counterparts

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§4 Incongruent Counterparts and Substantivalism

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§5 The Fine-Tuning Argument for Hyperspace

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§6 Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument for Hyperspace

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Chapter 2 Receptacles: Hosts and Guests

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§1 The Opponents and the Playing Field

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§2 Some Ground-Clearing and Stage-Setting

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§3 Against the 0-theory

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§4 Against the C-theory

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§5 Against the T-theory

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Chapter 3 Contact and Boundaries

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§1 Three Analyses of 'Touching'

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§2 Grainy Objects and Neighbors

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§3 Two More Analyses of 'Touching'

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§4 Bits and Pieces

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§5 Some Reflections on Boundaries

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§6 A Knot

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§7 Four Colors Do Not Suffice

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Chapter 4 Extended Simples and Diachoric Identity

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§1 Character Sketches

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§2 Occupation Relations

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§3 Extended Simples

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§4 The Problem of Spatial Intrinsics

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§5 The Problem of Shapes

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§6 The Problem of Parsimony

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§7 The Problem of Diachoric Identity

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§8 Scores

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Chapter 5 Superluminal Motion and Superluminal Causation

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§1 Moving Faster than Light

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§2 Immanent Causality and Diachronic Composition

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§3 Superluminal Causation

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Chapter 6 Mirror Determinism and Mirror Incompatibilism

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§1 A Quick Note on Freedom and Moral Responsibility

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§2 Logical, Causal, and Theological Determinism

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§3 Naive, Frankfurt, Conditional Analysis, Soft-Fact, Altered-Law, and Altered-Past Compatibilism

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§4 Many-Brothers Determinism and Many-Brothers Compatibilism

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§5 Mirror Determinism

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§6 Mirror Incompatibilism

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Chapter 7 Hyperspace and Theism

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§1 The Problem of the Best

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§2 The Problem of Evil

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Chapter 8 Hyperspace and Christianity

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§1 The Aim of these Reflections

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§2 A Brief Remark on Heaven and Hell

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§3 A Brief Remark on the Garden of Eden

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§4 A Brief Remark on Angels and Demons

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§5 New Testament Miracles

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Bibliography

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Index

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