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364Simples and gunkPhilosophy Compass 2 (2). 2007.Are there any non‐composite objects? Are there any objects every part of which is composite? Are items of either kind even possible? What would they be like? Of what significance would they be? How best can we come to have reasonable beliefs about the answers to these inquiries? Such questions – about the actuality and possibility, the analysis and significance, the methodology and epistemology of simples and pieces of gunk – have been center stage in recent contemporary analytic metaphysics. Th…Read more
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263Brute factsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 75 (1). 1997.This Article does not have an abstract
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253A materialist metaphysics of the human personCornell University Press. 2001.Introduction In the first four chapters of this book, I develop and defend a monistic account of human persons according to which human persons are highly ...
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214Universalism, four dimensionalism, and vaguenessPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 60 (3): 547-560. 2000.Anyone who endorses Universalism and Four Dimensionalism owes us an argument for those controversial mereological theses. One may put forth David Lewis’s and Ted Sider’s arguments from vagueness. However, the success of those arguments depends on the rejection of the epistemic view of vagueness, and thus opens the door to a fatal confrontation with one particularly troubling version of The Problem of the Many. The alternative for friends of Universalism and Four Dimensionalism is to abandon thos…Read more
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183OmnipresenceIn Thomas P. Flint & Michael Rea (eds.), The Oxford handbook of philosophical theology, Oxford University Press. 2008.According to the tradition of western theism, God is said to enjoy the attribute of being everywhere present. But what is it, exactly, for God to manifest ubiquitous presence? Well, presumably, it is for God to bear a certain relation – the ‘being present at’ relation – to every place. This article focuses on the ‘being present at’ relation which figures so prominently in the divine attribute of omnipresence, on both fundamental and derivative readings of that relation, and on a host of philosop…Read more
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147An Essay on EdenFaith and Philosophy 27 (3): 273-286. 2010.Despite an impressive tradition, modern literalists about the Garden of Eden have come under severe criticism and ridicule on the grounds that contemporary science has thoroughly discredited such a view. Accordingly, the prevailing trend in modern theology is to dehistoricize the Fall. I am no fan of literalism, but in this paper I argue that these grounds are in need of supplementation by a piece of metaphysics that has not been adequately defended. Absent the additional metaphysical thesis, it…Read more
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141Collective responsibility and moral vegetarianismJournal of Social Philosophy 24 (2): 89-104. 1993.
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134Reply to Parsons, Reply to Heller, and Reply to Rea (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2): 452-470. 2008.
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121Temporal parts and moral personhoodPhilosophical Studies 93 (3): 299-316. 1999.Three Dimensionalists and Four Dimensionalists are engaged in a debate on the topics of persistence and mereology. In this paper, I explore implications of Four Dimensionalism for the formulation of the criterion of personhood and on the question of which individuals satisfy that criterion. In my discussion I argue that the Four Dimensionalist has reason to identify a human person with a proper part of a human organism, and that the Four Dimensionalist has reason to believe that if there is some…Read more
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102Immanent Causality and Diachronic Composition: A Reply to BalashovPhilosophical Papers 32 (1): 15-22. 2003.Philosophical Papers Vol.32(1) 2003: 15-22
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92Précis of the metaphysics of hyperspace (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 76 (2). 2008.
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87Temporally Incongruent CounterpartsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2): 337-343. 2004.Despite its first page this paper is not yet another piece on Kant! Rather, the paper is a contribution to the literature on incongruent counterparts. Specifically, it concerns the question of whether we can construct a temporal version of the puzzle of incongruent counterparts—a question which (as far as 1 can tell) has been thoroughly neglected. I maintain that we can construct such a version of the puzzle, and that this temporal variant on the phenomenon has something to teach us about popula…Read more
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85A true, necessary falsehoodAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1). 1999.This Article does not have an abstract
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76The metaphysics of hyperspaceOxford University Press. 2005.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 metap…Read more
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67The liberal view of receptaclesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (4). 2002.This Article does not have an abstract
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66A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human PersonCornell University Press. 2001.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 …Read more
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64The Fall and HypertimeOxford University Press. 2014.Hud Hudson shows that apparently irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion often turn out to be misdescribed battles about negotiable philosophical assumptions. He defends an original Hypertime Hypothesis which reconciles the Christian doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin with reigning scientific orthodoxy
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64Review of Theodore Sider, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (6). 2002.
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59Van Inwagen on Time Travel and Changing the PastOxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 5 5 41. 2010.
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