A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person

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...

Hud Hudson is Professor of Philosophy at Western Washington University and the author of Kant's Compatibilism, also from Cornell.

This book places Hudson at the forefront of work in material composition; it is a 'must' read. This is a well-researched book, technically written and occasionally brilliant.

John P. Hawthorne, Syracuse University:

A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person is filled with imaginative and memorable examples that enhance its value as a source. Hud Hudson engages with a cluster of difficult issues in ontology, provides an overview of the range of positions on the metaphysics of human persons, thinks through difficult methodological issues, and comes up with original ideas.