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Mereology.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What is Mereology?; 0.1 A general, yet narrow, theory of parthood and composition; 0.2 Mereology as a discipline, mereology as a theory, mereology as a philosophical thesis; 0.3 Mereological monism and David Lewis: The reasons for this book; 0.4 Mereology is not logic; 0.5 Mereology is imperfectly understood, problematic, and dubious; 0.6 Mereology and abstract entities; 0.7 Mereological monism versus composition as identity; 0.8 The plan of the book; Part One The Methodology of Mereological Monism; Abstract.
- 1 Natural Language, Literal Parthood, and Philosophical Mereology1.1 Mereology and the lexical meaning of "part"; 1.2 "Part" and cognate terms: Three distinctions; 1.3 Literal parthood versus metaphorical parthood; 1.4 Spatial parthood, paradigmatic parthood; 1.5 Formal features and intuitive constraints; 1.6 Mereology is about nonselective parthood; 2 Mereological Monism: A Desirable Philosophical Thesis; 2.1 How to maximize the discriminating power; 2.2 Mereological monism as a refutation tool: An example; 2.3 Classical Extensional Mereology: From above and from below.
- 3 Is Mereology Formal?3.1 Three senses of formality; 3.2 How to show that mereology is formal; 3.3 Formality, existence, identity; 4 Transitivity and Other Features; 4.1 Is parthood transitive? Yes; 4.2 Monism, pluralism, and Ad Hocness; 4.3 Reflexivity; 4.4 Antisymmetry; 4.5 Overlap, Fusion; Part Two Extensionalism; Abstract; 5 Hyperextensionality and Nominalism about Structure; 5.1 Extensionalism at the origins of mereology; 5.2 Mereological monism and nominalism; 5.3 Goodman on hyperextensionality; 5.4 Hyperextensionality, sets, wholes; 5.5 Goodman's approach, atomism, gunk.
- 5.6 Is Goodman's approach circular?5.7 Fine's principles of obliteration; 6 What Extensionalism Says; 6.1 Uniqueness of Composition and Extensionalism; 6.2 Why Extensionalism is thus formulated; 6.3 Extensionalism, atoms, and verbal tricks; 7 Extensionalism and Concrete Entities; 7.1 A multiplicity of extensional (non-fuzzy) mountains; 7.2 A kind of duality; 7.3 Modal properties and counterpart theory; 7.4 Aesthetic properties and metalinguistic negation; 7.5 Different things, with different parts: Extensionalism vindicated; 7.6 A role for structures in Extensionalism.
- 7.7 Extensionalism and time8 Extensionalism and Abstract Entities; 8.1 A different scenario; 8.2 Facts and propositions; 8.3 Extensionalism and stipulation; 8.4 Extensionalism and language; 8.5 A limitation for Extensionalism; 8.6 Why it is reasonable to exclude abstract entities; 9 The Alternatives to Extensionalism; 9.1 Motivations for a non-extensional mereology; 9.2 Roles, forms, Extensionalism; 9.3 Dropping Weak Supplementation; 9.4 Reciprocal proper parts; 9.5 Strong Supplementation and Extensionalism; Part Three Unrestricted Composition; Abstract.