The metaphysics of hyperspace [[electronic resource] /] / Hud Hudson
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| Autore: |
Hudson Hud
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| Titolo: |
The metaphysics of hyperspace [[electronic resource] /] / Hud Hudson
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 110 |
| Soggetto topico: | Metaphysics |
| Fourth dimension | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [205] -214) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Concerning some philosophical reasons to believe in hyperspace -- Receptacles : hosts and guests -- Contact and boundaries -- Extended simples and diachoric identity -- Superluminal motion and superluminal causation -- Mirror determinism and mirror incompatibilism -- Hyperspace and theism -- Hyperspace and Christianity. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Hud Hudson offers an examination of philosophical reasons to believe in hyperspace. He explores non-theistic reasons, then inquires into a variety of puzzles in the metaphysics of material objects that are generated by the hypothesis of hyperspace or informed by it. Finally, he explores theistic reasons. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The metaphysics of hyperspace |
| ISBN: | 0-19-954925-7 |
| 1-280-75600-4 | |
| 0-19-151571-X | |
| 1-4237-8890-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458120703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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