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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12247597.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person -- The Many Problematic Solutions to the Problem of the Many -- The Problem Posed -- Clarifications -- On Nine Alleged Solutions -- Solution Ten: Many Persons -- The Threat of Many-Brothers Determinism -- Persistence and the Partist View -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Applications: Ethics and Philosophy of Religion -- Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts -- 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 -- An Inconsistent Triad.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 202 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0801438896".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog subject "128 21".
- catalog subject "B825 .H83 2001".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Materialism.".
- catalog subject "Philosophical anthropology.".
- catalog subject "Resurrection.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person -- The Many Problematic Solutions to the Problem of the Many -- The Problem Posed -- Clarifications -- On Nine Alleged Solutions -- Solution Ten: Many Persons -- The Threat of Many-Brothers Determinism -- Persistence and the Partist View -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Applications: Ethics and Philosophy of Religion -- Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts -- 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 -- An Inconsistent Triad.".
- catalog title "A materialist metaphysics of the human person / Hud Hudson.".
- catalog type "text".