The Structure of Objects
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 October 2010
- ISBN 9780199592517
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages310 pages
- Size 235x156x18 mm
- Weight 462 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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.
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The objects we encounter in ordinary life and scientific practice -- cars, trees, people, houses, molecules, galaxies, and the like -- have long been a fruitful source of perplexity for metaphysicians. The Structure of Objects gives an original analysis of those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in our ordinary, scientifically informed discourse. Koslicki focuses on material objects in particular, or, as metaphysicians like to call them "concrete particulars", i.e., objects which occupy a single region of space-time at each time at which they exist and which have a certain range of properties that go along with space-occupancy, such as weight, shape, color, texture, and temperature. The Structure of Objects focuses in particular on the question of how the parts of such objects, assuming that they have parts, are related to the wholes which they compose.
Review from previous edition Philosophers interested in mereological issues will profit from Koslicki's book.
Table of Contents:
1. Standard Mereology
Introduction
The Standard Conception of Composition
Ordinary Material Objects as Mereological Sums
Composition as Non-Identity
2. A Contemporary Structure-based Mereology
A Different Kind of Whole
3. Ancient Structure-Based Mereologies
The Role of Structure in Plato's Mereological Writings
Aristotle's Refinements of Plato's Theory
4. An Alternative Structure-Based Theory
Objects as Structured Wholes
In Defense of Kinds
Structure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
