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Composition as Identity

Composition as Identity


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Composition is the relation between a whole and its parts--the parts are said to compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts. But is a whole anything distinct from its parts taken collectively? It is often said that 'a whole is nothing over and above its parts'; but what might we mean by that? Could it be that a whole just is its parts?This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus on the relationship between composition and identity. Twelve original articles--written by internationally renowned scholars and rising stars in the field--argue for and against the controversial doctrine that composition is identity. An editor's introduction sets out the formal and philosophical groundwork to bring readers to the forefront of the debate.

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors Part I: Introduction and history 1: A. J. Cotnoir: Composition As Identity: Framing The Debate 2: Calvin G. Normore & Deborah J. Brown: On Bits and Pieces in the History of Philosophy Part II: Ontological commitments of CAI 3: Achille C. Varzi: Counting and Countenancing 4: Katherine Hawley: Ontological Innocence 5: Ross P. Cameron: Parts Generate The Whole, But They Are Not Identical To It Part III: Metaphysical commitments of CAI 6: Meg Wallace: Composition As Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Modal Parts 7: Kris McDaniel: Compositional Pluralism and Composition As Identity 8: Einar Duenger Bohn: Unrestricted Composition As Identity Part IV: Logical commitments of CAI 9: Byeong-Uk Yi: Is There A Plural Object? 10: Paul Hovda: Logical Considerations On Composition As Identity 11: Theodore Sider: Consequences Of Collapse Part V: Indiscernibility and CAI 12: Jason Turner: Donald Baxter's Composition As Identity 13: Donald L. M. Baxter: Identity, Discernibility, and Composition Index

About the Author :
A. J. Cotnoir is a Lecturer in the Department of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, member of the Arché Philosophical Research Center, and an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 2010. He works primarily in Metaphysics and Philosophical Logic. ; Donald L. M. Baxter is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Pittsburgh and first taught at Princeton University. He works mainly in Metaphysics and in Early Modern Western Philosophy. His monograph, Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise, was published by Routledge in 2008.

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The papers in the collection provide a valuable contribution to the literature on CAI. The editors have succeeded in covering the central issues related to CAI, and taken together they are an example of a fruitful exchange between formal and philosophical theories. This collection will be of interest to those working on CAI, mereology more broadly, as well as philosophical uses of plural logic. This book is evidence that discussion of CAI has reached critical mass. It is a timely contribution and advances debates in meta-ontology, fundamentality, mereology, and plural logic.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780199669615
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
  • Height: 239 mm
  • No of Pages: 270
  • Weight: 607 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199669619
  • Publisher Date: 07 Aug 2014
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 163 mm


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