the fall and hypertime
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - An Opening Gambit
§1 Selecting a Subject Matter
§2 Aims of the Inquiry
§3 Inviting an Audience
Chapter 2 - A War of Worldviews
§1 The Fall, Original Sin, and Original Guilt
§2 Lessons from Astronomy, Physics, Geology, Paleoanthropology, Genetics, and Evolutionary Biology
Chapter 3 - The Path of Retreat
§1 Concession Strategy I - Abandoning and Apologizing for Original Guilt
§2 Concession Strategy II - Reinterpreting and Impoverishing Original Sin
§3 Concession Strategy III - Minimizing and Dehistoricizing The Fall
§4 The Retreat Partial - Reclaiming The Fall and Original Sin
Chapter 4 - Original Guilt: An Unsuccessful Rescue Attempt
§1 An Inconsistent Triad
§2 Preamble to a Solution
§3 Background Metaphysics
§4 A Solution
§5 Four Objections and Replies
§6 Three Additional Objections and Replies
§7 An Unexpected Lesson
§8 A Transition
Chapter 5 - Metaphysics and the Hypertime Hypothesis
§1 Substantivalism and Stage-Setting
§2 Presentism, Growing Block, Shrinking Block, Falling Branches, Eternalism
§3 Morphing Block
§4 The Hypertime Hypothesis
§5 Human Persons and Persistence
§6 Meinongianism, Possibilism, Eternalism, and Dynamic Hypertime
§7 Formulating Theories of Hypertime Persistence for Human Persons
§8 A First Pass at Evaluating the Proposals
§9 ManyBlock Theory: A Mashup
§10 Eternalism, Presentism, and the Hypertime Hypothesis
Chapter 6 - Epistemology and the Hypertime Hypothesis
§1 Epistemic Possibility and Local Skepticisms
§2 Demons, Vats, Induction, Minds, Morality, Yesterday Worlds, Boltzmann Brains
§3 Some Familiar Responses
§4 The Epistemic Status of the Hypertime Hypothesis
Chapter 7 - Religion and the Hypertime Hypothesis I
§1 Omnipresence
§2 Two Historical Views and a Recent Controversy
§3 A Brief Glance at Two Under-Explored Non-Occupation Relations
§4 An Old Time Revival
§5 Occupation Relations
§6 Occupation Accounts of Omnipresence and Our Six Puzzles
§7 Eternality and Creation
Chapter 8 - Religion and the Hypertime Hypothesis II
§1 The Problem of Evil and The Problem of the Best
§2 A Best Possible World - the Letter and the Spirit
§3 The Multiverse
§4 The Multiverse and the Second and Third Inconsistent Triad
§5 The Multiverse and the First Inconsistent Triad
§6 Five Philosophical Postscripts
Chapter 9 - The Fall and Original Sin: The Reconciling-Resources of Hypertime
§1 An Opening Reflection
§2 The Doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin: Extreme Literalism
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