Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary material objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse. She focuses particularly on the question of how the parts of such objects are related to the wholes which they compose. INDICE: 1. Standard Mereology; Introduction; 1: The Standard Conceptionof Composition; 2: Ordinary Material Objects as Mereological Sums; 3: Composition as Non-Identity; 2. A Contemporary Structure-based Mereology; 4: A Different Kind of Whole; 3. Ancient Structure-Based Mereologies; 5: The Role of Structure in Plato's Mereological Writings; 6: Aristotle's Refinements of Plato's Theory; 4. An Alternative Structure-Based Theory; 7: Objects as Structured Wholes; 8: In Defense of Kinds; 9: Structure; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959251-7
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés