The structure of objects / Kathrin Koslicki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koslicki, Kathrin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Object (Philosophy).

Whole and parts (Philosophy).

Structuralism.

All (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 288 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The objects we encounter in ordinary life and scientific practice - cars, people, houses, molecules, etc. - have long been a fruitful source of perplexity for metaphysicians. This title gives an analysis of those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in our ordinary, scientifically informed discourse.

Contents:

""I. STANDARD MEREOLOGY""; ""Introduction""; ""I. The Standard Conception of Composition""; ""I.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""I.2 Standard Mereology""; ""I.3 The Application of Standard Mereology to Ordinary Material Objects""; ""II. Ordinary Objects as Mereological Sums""; ""II.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""II.2 Thomson�s Three-Dimensionalist Approach""; ""II.3 Lewis� Four-Dimensionalist Approach""; ""II.4 Concluding Remarks""; ""III. Composition as Non-Identity""; ""III.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""III.2 The Suspect Strategy""

""III.3 What�s Wrong with the Suspect Strategy?""""III.4 Concluding Remarks""; ""II. A CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURE-BASED MEREOLOGY""; ""IV. A Different Kind of Whole""; ""IV.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""IV.2 Parting Ways with the Standard Conception""; ""IV.3 Fine�s Theory of Embodiments""; ""IV.4 Discussion""; ""IV.5 Concluding Remarks""; ""III. ANCIENT STRUCTURE-BASED MEREOLOGIES""; ""V. The Role of Structure in Plato�s Mereological Writings""; ""V.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""V.2 The Negative Mereological Undercurrent""; ""V.3 The Positive Mereological Undercurrent""

""V.4 Platonic Wholes""""V.5 Concluding Remarks""; ""VI. Aristotle�s Refinements of Plato�s Theory""; ""VI.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""VI.2 The Centrality of ��Part�� and ��Whole�� in the Aristotelian Corpus""; ""VI.3 The Problem of the One and the Many""; ""VI.4 A Reading of the Text""; ""VI.5 Summary of Sections VI.3�4: The Highlights""; ""VI.6 Discussion""; ""VI.7 Concluding Remarks""; ""IV. AN ALTERNATIVE STRUCTURE-BASED THEORY""; ""VII. Objects as Structured Wholes""; ""VII.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""VII.2 Outlines of the Theory""; ""VII.3 Concluding Remarks""

""VIII. In Defense of Kinds""""VIII.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""VIII.2 What Are Natural Kinds?""; ""VIII.3 The Special Features of Natural Kinds""; ""VIII.4 Biological Taxa""; ""VIII.5 What Sorts of Entities Are Natural Kinds?""; ""VIII.6 Incommensurability and Indeterminacy: Physical and Chemical Kinds""; ""VIII.7 Concluding Remarks""; ""IX. Structure""; ""IX.1 Introductory Remarks""; ""IX.2 Some Preliminaries""; ""IX.3 Some Case Studies""; ""IX.4 Structures as Objects""; ""IX.5 The Grounding Problem Revisited""; ""IX.6 Concluding Remarks""; ""Conclusion"".

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-280) and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-160913-7

0-19-959251-9

1-281-34131-2

9786611341312

0-19-153867-1

OCLC:

227006033