a materialist metaphysics of the human person
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person
Chapter 1 - The Many Problematic Solutions to the Problem of the Many
§1 The Problem Posed
§2 Clarifications
§3 On Nine Alleged Solutions
§4 Solution Ten: Many Persons
§5 The Threat Of Many-Brothers Determinism
Chapter 2 - Persistence and the Partist View
§1 The Partist View
§2 Some Familiar Puzzles Of Material Constitution
§3 The Three Dimensionalist Partist’s Failure
§4 The Four Dimensionalist Partist’s Success
§5 Taking Stock
Chapter 3 - Vagueness and Composition
§1 The Impossibility Of Ontological Vagueness
§2 Defects Of The Linguistic View Of Vagueness
§3 The Virtues Of Epistemicism
§4 The Special Composition Question
§5 Against Material Atomless Gunk
§6 Three Objections To Universalism
§7 The Inadequacy Of The Argument From Vagueness
§8 The Case For Universalism
Chapter 4 - The Criterion of Personal Identity
§1 On The Referent Of The Term ‘Human Person’
§2 Maximal Persons, Temporary Persons, And Person-Parts
§3 The Criterion Of Personhood
§4 The I-Relation And The R-Relation
§5 The Puzzle Of Diageometric Identity
§6 Solving The Semantic Puzzle
Chapter 5 - A Portrait of the Human Person
§1 A Review
§2 A Preview
Part II - Applications: Ethics and Philosophy of Religion
Chapter 6 - Pre-Persons, Post-Persons, Non-Persons, and Person-Parts
§1 Our Preferred Metaphysics And Moral Theory
§2 Pre-Persons: Contraception, Abortion, And Infanticide
§3 Post-Persons: Irreversibly Comatose Humans And Human Corpses
§4 Non-Persons: Human And Non-Human Animals
§5 Person-Parts: Proper Temporal Parts Of Human Persons
Chapter 7 - Nothing but Dust and Ashes
§1 An Inconsistent Triad
§2 Christian Materialism
§3 The Challenge Of The Resurrection
§4 Five Attempts At Reconciliation And A Common Presumption
§5 The Resurrection Of The Body And The Life Everlasting
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