The Metaphysics of Hyperspace

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 is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University

Introduction	p. 1
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
Concerning Some Philosophical Reasons to Believe in Hyperspace	p. 19
Two Voices from Königsberg	p. 19
Incongruent Counterparts and Hyperspace	p. 21
The Problem of Temporally Incongruent Counterparts	p. 25
Incongruent Counterparts and Substantivalism	p. 31
The Fine-Tuning Argument for Hyperspace	p. 36
Objections to the Fine-Tuning Argument for Hyperspace	p. 42
Receptacles: Hosts and Guests	p. 47
The Opponents and the Playing Field	p. 47
Some Ground-Clearing and Stage-Setting	p. 48
Against the O-theory	p. 50
Against the C-theory	p. 52
Against the T-theory	p. 53
Contact and Boundaries	p. 57
Three Analyses of 'Touching'	p. 57
Grainy Objects and Neighbors	p. 61
Two More Analyses of 'Touching'	p. 64
Bits and Pieces	p. 67
Some Reflections on Boundaries	p. 68
A Knot	p. 80
Four Colors Do Not Suffice	p. 86
Extended Simples and Diachoric Identity	p. 97
Character Sketches	p. 97
Occupation Relations	p. 98
Extended Simples	p. 106
The Problem of Spatial Intrinsics	p. 108
The Problem of Shapes	p. 111
The Problem of Parsimony	p. 113
The Problem of Diachoric Identity	p. 116
Scores	p. 121
Superluminal Motion and Superluminal Causation	p. 123
Moving Faster than Light	p. 123
Immanent Causality and Diachronic Composition	p. 126
Superluminal Causation	p. 131
Mirror Determinism and Mirror Incompatibilism	p. 137
A Quick Note on Freedom and Moral Responsibility	p. 137
Logical, Causal, and Theological Determinism	p. 138
Naive, Frankfurt, Conditional Analysis, Soft-Fact, Altered-Law, and Altered-Past Compatibilism	p. 140
Many-Brothers Determinism and Many-Brothers Compatibilism	p. 146
Mirror Determinism	p. 149
Mirror Incompatibilism	p. 155
Hyperspace and Theism	p. 163
The Problem of the Best	p. 163
The Problem of Evil	p. 172
Hyperspace and Christianity	p. 182
The Aim of these Reflections	p. 182
A Brief Remark on Heaven and Hell	p. 184
A Brief Remark on the Garden of Eden	p. 188
A Brief Remark on Angels and Demons	p. 193
New Testament Miracles	p. 195
bliography	p. 205
Index	p. 215
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