| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part 1. Mereology -- The many primitives of mereology / Josh Parsons -- Parthood is identity / Kris McDaniel -- Mereology and modality / Gabriel Uzquiano -- Part 2. Mereology and location -- Where it's at: modes of occupation and kinds of occupant / Peter Simons -- A spatial approach to mereology / Ned Markosian -- Balls and all / Daniel Nolan -- Conflicting intuitions about space / Peter Forrest -- Part 3. Interaction with Other Topics -- Transhypertime identity / Hud Hudson -- Parts of propositions / Cody Gilmore -- Mereological sums and singular terms / Kathrin Koslicki |
| Summary |
A team of leading philosophers present original work on theories of parthood and location. Topics covered include how we ought to axiomatise our mereology; whether we can reduce mereological relations to identity or to locative relations; whether mereological essentialism is true; and what mereology and propositions can tell us about one another |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Whole and parts (Philosophy)
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Place (Philosophy)
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Place (Philosophy)
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Whole and parts (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kleinschmidt, Shieva, editor
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Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
9780191758911 |
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0191758914 |
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9780191662874 |
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0191662879 |
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