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Peter Simons surveys and criticizes previous theories, and proposes a more adequate account which encompasses both temporal and modal considerations in detail. 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.
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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199241465
ISBN-139780199241460
eBay Product ID (ePID)1671875
Product Key Features
Number of Pages404 Pages
Publication NameParts: a Study in Ontology
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral, Logic
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorPeter Simons
Subject AreaPhilosophy
FormatUk-Trade Paper
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight19.3 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN00-060682
Reviews"A clear and careful work both in metaphysics and in the history and logic of mereology....Simons's care and precision and his sensitivity to fine distinctions are what make the book a success."--The Philosophical Review, "A clear and careful work both in metaphysics and in the history and logic of mereology....Simons's care and precision and his sensitivity to fine distinctions are what make the book a success."-- The Philosophical Review
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal111/.82
Table Of ContentIntroduction; Part 1 Existensional Part-Whole Theory; 1. Concepts and Principles of Extensional Mereology; 2. Survey of Extensional Mereology; 3. Problems; 4. Occurrents, Classes, and Masses; Part II Mereology of Continuants; 5. Temporary Parts and Intermittent Existence; 6. Superposition, Composition, and Matter; Part III Essence, Dependence, and Integrity; 7. Essential Parts; 8. Ontological Dependence; 9. Integral Wholes; Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisShowing that mereology is essential to ontology, Simons surveys and critiques previous theories of ontology and proposes a new account that encompasses both temporal and modal considerations., 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 to long-standing problems surrounding these concepts, such as the Ship of Theseus Problem and the issue of mereological essentialism. The author shows by his use of formal techniques that classical philosophical problems are amenable to rigorous treatment, and the book represents a synthesis of issues and methods from the analytical tradition and from the older continental realist tradition of Brentano and the early Husserl., Although the relationship of part to whole is one of the most fundamental there is, this is the first full-length study of this key concept. Showing that mereology, or the formal theory of part and whole, is essential to ontology, Simons surveys and critiques previous theories--especially the standard extensional view--and proposes a new account that encompasses both temporal and modal considerations. Simons's revised theory not only allows him to offer fresh solutions to long-standing problems, but also has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of a host of classical philosophical concepts.
LC Classification NumberBD396.S4 2000
