Parts: a Study in Ontology

Name: Parts: a Study in Ontology
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ISBN: 9780199241460

ISBN-10: 0199241465

ISBN-13: 9780199241460

Edition: 2000

Authors: Peter Simons

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The relationship of part to whole is one of the most fundamental there is, yet until now there has been no full-length study of this concept. This book shows that mereology, the formal theory of part and whole, is essential to ontology. Peter Simons surveys and criticizes previous theories, especially the standard extensional view, and proposes a more adequate account which encompasses both temporal and modal considerations in detail. This has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of such classical philosophical concepts as identity, individual, class, substance and accident, matter, form, essence, dependence, and integral whole. It also enables the author to offer new solutions…

Book details

List price: $84.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction



Existensional Part-Whole Theory



Concepts and Principles of Extensional Mereology



Survey of Extensional Mereology



Problems



Occurrents, Classes, and Masses



Mereology of Continuants



Temporary Parts and Intermittent Existence



Superposition, Composition, and Matter



Essence, Dependence, and Integrity



Essential Parts



Ontological Dependence



Integral Wholes


Concluding Remarks


Bibliography


Index