Sui generis-ness, parsimony and innocence : the (meta)²physics of parthood

A metaphysical naturalist could find the following combination of claims attractive. First, part-whole and composition in physics are sui generis and lack some of the ‘core’ features we ascribe to these concepts and their worldly satisfiers in first-order metaphysics. Second, having agreed that some...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ceravolo, Fabio
Other Authors: French, Steven R. D. ; Williams, J. Robert G.
Published: University of Leeds 2018
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.759811