The metaphysics of hyperspace
By: Hud Hudson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Metaphysics; Fourth dimension
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Concerning some philosophical reasons to believe in hyperspace; title: Receptacles : hosts and guests; title: Contact and boundaries; title: Extended simples and diachoric identity; title: Superluminal motion and superluminal causation; title: Mirror determinism and mirror incompatibilism; title: Hyperspace and theism; title: Hyperspace and Christianity.