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9780801438899

A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person

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  • ISBN13:

    9780801438899

  • ISBN10:

    0801438896

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-08-01
  • Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

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Hud Hudson is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1(10)
Part I A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person
The Many Problematic Solutions to the Problem of the Many
11(34)
The Problem Posed
Clarifications
On Nine Alleged Solutions
Solution Ten: Many Persons
The Threat of Many-Brothers Determinism
Persistence and the Partist View
45(27)
The Partist View
Some Familiar Puzzles of Material Constitution
The Three-Dimensionalist Partist's Failure
The Four-Dimensionalist Partist's Success
Taking Stock
Vagueness and Composition
72(41)
The Impossibility of Ontological Vagueness
Defects of the Linguistic View of Vagueness
The Virtues of Epistemicism
The Special Composition Question
Against Material Atomless Gunk
Three Objections to Universalism
The Inadequacy of the Argument from Vagueness
The Case for Universalism
The Criterion of Personal Identity
113(32)
On the Referent of the Term `Human Person'
Maximal Persons, Temporary Persons, and Person-Parts
The Criterion of Personhood
The I-Relation and the R-Relation
The Puzzle of Diageometric Identity
Solving the Semantic Puzzle
A Portrait of the Human Person
145(4)
A Review
A Preview
Part II Applications: Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts
149(18)
Our Preferred Metaphysics and Moral Theory
Pre-Persons: Contraception, Abortion, and Infanticide
Post-Persons: Irreversibly Comatose Humans and Human Corpses
Non-Persons: Human and Non-Human Animals
Person Parts: Proper Temporal Parts of Human Persons
Nothing But Dust and Ashes
167(26)
An Inconsistent Triad
Christian Materialism
The Challenge of the Resurrection
Five Attempts at Reconciliation and a Common Presumption
The Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting
Bibliography 193(6)
Index 199

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