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El. knyga: Fall and Hypertime [Oxford Scholarship Online E-books]

(Western Washington University)
  • Formatas: 226 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2014
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780198712695
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  • Formatas: 226 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2014
  • Leidėjas: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-13: 9780198712695
Frequently, alleged irreconcilable conflicts between science and religion are instead misdescribed battles concerning negotiable philosophical assumptions--conflicts between metaphysics and metaphysics. Hud Hudson provides a two-stage illustration of this claim with respect to the putative inconsistency between the doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin and the deliverances of contemporary science. The tension in question emerges through a study of the many forms the religious doctrines have assumed over the centuries and through a review of some well-established scientific lessons on the origin and history of the universe and of human persons.

The first stage: After surveying various paths of retreat which involve reinterpreting and impoverishing Original Sin and minimizing and dehistoricizing The Fall, one version of moderate realism about the doctrines is articulated, critically evaluated, and found both consistent with contemporary science and suitable to play a crucial role in the theist's confrontation with the Problem of Evil.

The second stage: Recent work in the philosophy of time and in the philosophy of religion provides intriguing support for a Hypertime Hypothesis (a species of multiverse hypothesis), distinctive for positing a series of successive hypertimes, each of which hosts a spacetime block.

After arguing that the Hypertime Hypothesis is a genuine epistemic possibility and critically discussing its impact on a number of debates in metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Hudson reveals a strategy for unabashed, extreme literalism concerning The Fall and Original Sin which nevertheless has the extraordinary and delightful feature of being thoroughly consistent with the reigning scientific orthodoxy.
1 An Opening Gambit
1(15)
1 Selecting a Subject Matter
1(8)
2 Aims of the Inquiry
9(4)
3 Inviting an Audience
13(3)
2 A War of Worldviews
16(14)
1 The Fall, Original Sin, and Original Guilt
16(7)
2 Lessons from Astronomy, Physics, Geology, Paleoanthropology, Genetics, and Evolutionary Biology
23(7)
3 The Path of Retreat
30(25)
1 Concession Strategy I: Abandoning and Apologizing for Original Guilt
30(3)
2 Concession Strategy II: Reinterpreting and Impoverishing Original Sin
33(3)
3 Concession Strategy III: Minimizing and Dehistoricizing The Fall
36(6)
4 The Retreat Partial: Reclaiming The Fall and Original Sin
42(13)
4 Original Guilt: An Unsuccessful Rescue Attempt
55(23)
1 An Inconsistent Triad
55(3)
2 Preamble to a Solution
58(1)
3 Background Metaphysics
59(3)
4 A Solution
62(2)
5 Four Objections and Replies
64(7)
6 Three Additional Objections and Replies
71(3)
7 An Unexpected Lesson
74(2)
8 A Transition
76(2)
5 Metaphysics and the Hypertime Hypothesis
78(35)
1 Substantivalism and Stage-Setting
78(1)
2 Presentism, Growing Block, Shrinking Block, Falling Branches, Eternalism
79(3)
3 Morphing Block
82(6)
4 The Hypertime Hypothesis
88(4)
5 Human Persons and Persistence
92(3)
6 Meinongianism, Possibilism, Eternalism, and Dynamic Hypertime
95(1)
7 Formulating Theories of Hypertime Persistence for Human Persons
96(2)
8 A First Pass at Evaluating the Proposals
98(7)
9 ManyBlock Theory: A Mashup
105(2)
10 Eternalism, Presentism, and the Hypertime Hypothesis
107(6)
6 Epistemology and the Hypertime Hypothesis
113(23)
1 Epistemic Possibility and Local Skepticisms
113(3)
2 Demons, Vats, Induction, Minds, Morality, Yesterday Worlds, Boltzmann Brains
116(5)
3 Some Familiar Strategies
121(11)
4 The Epistemic Status of the Hypertime Hypothesis
132(4)
7 Religion and the Hypertime Hypothesis I
136(25)
1 Omnipresence
136(1)
2 Two Historical Views and a Recent Controversy
137(5)
3 A Brief Glance at Two Under-Explored Non-Occupation Relations
142(1)
4 An Old Time Revival
143(1)
5 Occupation Relations
144(5)
6 Occupation Accounts of Omnipresence and our Six Puzzles
149(4)
7 Eternality and Creation
153(8)
8 Religion and the Hypertime Hypothesis II
161(25)
1 The Problem of Evil and the Problem of the Best
161(6)
2 A Best Possible World---The Letter and the Spirit
167(4)
3 The Multiverse
171(1)
4 The Multiverse and the Second and Third Inconsistent Triad
172(5)
5 The Multiverse and the First Inconsistent Triad
177(4)
6 Five Philosophical Postscripts
181(5)
9 The Fall and Original Sin: The Reconciling Resources of Hypertime
186(9)
1 An Opening Reflection
186(2)
2 The Doctrines of The Fall and Original Sin: Extreme Literalism
188(7)
References 195(12)
Index 207
Hud Hudson is a professor of philosophy at Western Washington University. He works primarily in the areas of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the history of modern philosophy, and has published numerous articles in a variety of journals including Noūs, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophical Studies, and The Journal of Philosophy. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Hyperspace (OUP, 2005), A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person (Cornell University Press, 2001), and Kant's Compatibilism (Cornell University Press, 1994).