Mereology
$108.18
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2024
Summary
Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts? Are there things composed of the same parts? If you divide an object into parts, and divide those parts into smaller parts, will this process ever come to an end? Can something lose parts or gain new ones without ceasing to be the thing it is? Does any multitude of things (including disparate things such as you, this book, and the tail of a cat) compose a whole of some sort?
Questions such as these have occupied us for at least as l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198908937 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198908938 |
| Author: | A.J. Cotnoir, Achille C. Varzi |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 620g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 155mm x 232mm |
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Critics Review
This long-awaited book is a gem. It is a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in the theory of parts and wholes, particularly as work on that topic is carried on in philosophy and logic…This is a work that is clear, careful, and judicious…interesting and engaging…a must-have work, not just for those primarily concerned with mereology, but for anyone who finds the theory of parts and wholes relevant for their thinking. Cotnoir and Varzi have done the profession a great service. This book will serve as the new standard and touchstone for work in mereology for decades to come * Daniel Nolan, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
The blurb on the back cover claims that in this book, it is possible to find all the tools needed to ‘theorize about all things mereological’. The book fulfills this promise. An impressive variety of theories are systematized and compared. Attention is paid to both their philosophical motivations and their technical aspects * Giorgio Lando, Philosophical Quarterly *
A detailed index, appendices, and a comprehensive bibliography makes this book an indispensable resource to researchers in every field where part-whole theorizing plays a fundamental role. * MathSciNet *
A.J. Cotnoir
A.J. Cotnoir is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on areas of metaphysics, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion. He is the co-editor of a collection entitled Composition as Identity (Oxford University Press, 2014), and has published widely on the metaphysics of parthood, composition, and identity.
Achille C. Varzi is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York, where he has been teaching since 1995. He has published numerous articles and books in logic, metaphysics, formal ontology, and the philosophy of language and literature. He is an editor of The Journal of Philosophy, a subject editor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and an associate or advisory editor of several other journals and book series.
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