A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person

Hudson, Hud

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“…Theories Without ConstitutionAbove I mentioned perdurantism, a theory with many defenders(Quine 1950(Quine , 1960 Noonan 1980;Lewis 1986;Heller 1990;Jubien 1993;Hawley 2001;Hudson 2001;Sider 2001). A number of other theories that do not introduce a special relation of 21 This characterization is inspired by those given byDoepke (1997, 19) andSimons (1987, 239).…”

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Material Constitution is Ad Hoc

Smid

2016

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The idea that two objects can coincide-by sharing all their proper parts, or matter-yet be non-identical, results in the ''Problem of Coincident Objects'': in what relation do objects stand if they are not identical but share all their proper parts? One solution is to introduce material constitution. In this paper, I argue that this is ad hoc since, first, this solution cannot be generalized to solve similar (real) problems, and, second, there are pseudo cases of coincidence that should not trigger the introduction of material constitution and these cannot be distinguished in any principled way from the allegedly real cases of coincidence.

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“…92 NOTES 1 I use ''basic building block of space'' rather than ''spatial point'' since there is currently much discussion among philosophers (such as, Hudson (2001), Markosian (1998), McDaniel (2002, Pyle (1995), and Zimmerman (1996a, b), to name just a few) over whether or not space is continuous or discrete: whether or not space is composed of spatial points, or of spatially extended basic building blocks of space (such as the widely accepted ''Planck lengths'' or ''Planck cells'' discussed by physicists). I will discuss this more in sections below.…”

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The Impossibility of Relations Between Non-Collocated Spatial Objects And Non-Identical Topological Spaces

Grupp¹

2005

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I argue that relations between non-collocated spatial entities, between non-identical topological spaces, and between non-identical basic building blocks of space, do not exist. If any spatially located entities are not at the same spatial location, or if any topological spaces or basic building blocks of space are nonidentical, I will argue that there are no relations between or among them. The arguments I present are arguments that I have not seen in the literature.Axiomathes (2005) 15: 85-141 Ó Springer 2005

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“…I take my relation to be the same as that which Hudson (2001), Sattig (2006), and Gilmore (2006) refer to as '(exact) occupation' and which Balashov (2008) calls '(exact) location'. As Gilmore puts it, this relation ''is said to hold between a thing and a region just in case… the thing exactly fits into the region, where this is meant to guarantee that the thing and the region have precisely the same shape, size, and position' ' (2006, p. 200).…”

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Endurantist and perdurantist accounts of persistence

Donnelly

2010

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In this paper, I focus on three issues intertwined in current debates between endurantists and perdurantists-(i) the dimension of persisting objects, (ii) whether persisting objects have timeless, or only time-relative, parts, and (iii) whether persisting objects have proper temporal parts. I argue that one standard endurantist position on the first issue is compatible with standard perdurantist positions on parthood and temporal parts. I further argue that different accounts of persistence depend on the claims about objects' dimensions and not on the auxiliary claims about parthood and temporal parts.

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A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person

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Material Constitution is Ad Hoc

Material Constitution is Ad Hoc

The Impossibility of Relations Between Non-Collocated Spatial Objects And Non-Identical Topological Spaces

Endurantist and perdurantist accounts of persistence

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