5 Oct
2005
5 Oct
'05
9:58 a.m.
The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a lecture
by
Hugh Mellor (Cambridge)
on
'Are wholes the sums of their parts?'
Tuesday, 11 October 2005 5.00 PM, Zrinyi 14, room 412
Abstract
Many philosophers accept a principle of unrestricted mereological
composition. This says that any number of entities of any kind
constitute another entity, which is the mereological sum of them. This
principle implies in particular that there is a mereological sum of the
material parts of any material object, with which that object is then
commonly identified. I argue that the problems that the vagueness of
the part-whole relation raises for this identification means that we
should not only reject it but deny that there is any such entity as the
sum of a material object's parts
Kriszta Biber
Department Coordinator
Philosophy Department
Tel: 36-1-327-3806
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E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu