メレオロジー:哲学的入門<br>Mereology: a Philosophical Introduction

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メレオロジー:哲学的入門
Mereology: a Philosophical Introduction

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 248 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781350094734
  • DDC分類 110

Full Description

Parthood and composition are everywhere. The leg of a table is part of the table, the word "Christmas" is part of the sentence "I wish you a merry Christmas", the 13th century is part of the Middle Ages. The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg compose Benelux, the body of a deer is composed of a huge number of cells, the Middle Ages are composed of the Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages. Is there really a general theory covering every instance of parthood and composition? Is classical mereology this general theory? Are its seemingly counter-intuitive features serious defects?

Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction addresses the multifaceted and lively philosophical debates surrounding these questions, and defends the idea that classical mereology is indeed the general and exhaustive theory of parthood and composition in the domain of concrete entities.

Several examples of parthood and composition, involving entities of different kinds, are scrutinised in depth. Incidentally, mereology is shown to interact in a surprising way with metaontology. Presenting a well-organized and comprehensive discussion of parthood and related notions, Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction contributes to a better understanding of a subject central to contemporary metaphysics.

Contents

Introduction
Part I: The Methodology of Mereological Monism
1. Natural Language, Literal Parthood, and Philosophical Mereology
2. Mereological Monism: A Desirable Philosophical Thesis
3. Is Mereology Formal?
4. Transitivity and Other Features
Part II: Extensionalism
5. Hyperextensionality and Nominalism about Structure
6. What Extensionalism Says
7. Extensionalism and Concrete Entities
8. Extensionalism and Abstract Entities
9. The Alternatives to Extensionalism
Part III: Unrestricted Composition
10. Mereological Fusion and Plural Logic
11. The Definition of Fusion
12. Allegedly Counterintuitive Entities
13. The Argument from Vagueness
14. Unrestricted Composition and Metaontology
Appendix: Mereological Monism, Without Composition as Identity
References
Index

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