A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person /

A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person / / Hud Hudson.

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,...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Hudson, Hud,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART I. A MATERIALIST METAPHYSICS OF THE HUMAN PERSON
  • Chapter 1. The Many Problematic Solutions to the Problem of the Many
  • Chapter 2. Persistence and the Partist View
  • Chapter 3. Vagueness and Composition
  • Chapter 4. The Criterion of Personal Identity
  • Chapter 5. A Portrait of the Human Person
  • PART II. APPLICATIONS: ETHICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
  • Chapter 6. Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts
  • Chapter 7. Nothing But Dust and Ashes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Similar Items