Composition is the relation between a whole and its parts-the parts compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts. But is a whole anything distinct from its collective parts? Could it be that a whole just is its parts? Twelve original articles argue for and against the controversial doctrine that composition is identity.
A. J. Cotnoir is a Lecturer in the Department of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, member of the Arché Philosophical Research Center, and an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 2010. He works primarily in Metaphysics and Philosophical Logic. ; Donald L. M. Baxter is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Pittsburgh and first taught at Princeton University. He works mainly in Metaphysics and in Early Modern Western Philosophy. His monograph, Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise, was published by Routledge in 2008.
Show moreComposition is the relation between a whole and its parts-the parts compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts. But is a whole anything distinct from its collective parts? Could it be that a whole just is its parts? Twelve original articles argue for and against the controversial doctrine that composition is identity.
A. J. Cotnoir is a Lecturer in the Department of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, member of the Arché Philosophical Research Center, and an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy. He received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Connecticut in 2010. He works primarily in Metaphysics and Philosophical Logic. ; Donald L. M. Baxter is Professor and Head of the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from the University of Pittsburgh and first taught at Princeton University. He works mainly in Metaphysics and in Early Modern Western Philosophy. His monograph, Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise, was published by Routledge in 2008.
Show moreList of Contributors
Part I: Introduction and history
1: A. J. Cotnoir: Composition As Identity: Framing The Debate
2: Calvin G. Normore & Deborah J. Brown: On Bits and Pieces in the
History of Philosophy
Part II: Ontological commitments of CAI
3: Achille C. Varzi: Counting and Countenancing
4: Katherine Hawley: Ontological Innocence
5: Ross P. Cameron: Parts Generate The Whole, But They Are Not
Identical To It
Part III: Metaphysical commitments of CAI
6: Meg Wallace: Composition As Identity, Mereological Essentialism,
and Modal Parts
7: Kris McDaniel: Compositional Pluralism and Composition As
Identity
8: Einar Duenger Bohn: Unrestricted Composition As Identity
Part IV: Logical commitments of CAI
9: Byeong-Uk Yi: Is There A Plural Object?
10: Paul Hovda: Logical Considerations On Composition As
Identity
11: Theodore Sider: Consequences Of Collapse
Part V: Indiscernibility and CAI
12: Jason Turner: Donald Baxter's Composition As Identity
13: Donald L. M. Baxter: Identity, Discernibility, and
Composition
Index
A. J. Cotnoir is a Lecturer in the Department of Logic and
Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews, member of the Arché
Philosophical Research Center, and an Associate Fellow of the
Northern Institute of Philosophy. He received his PhD in philosophy
from the University of Connecticut in 2010. He works primarily in
Metaphysics and Philosophical Logic.
; Donald L. M. Baxter is Professor and Head of the Philosophy
Department at the University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D.
in 1984 from the University of Pittsburgh and first taught at
Princeton University. He works mainly in Metaphysics and in Early
Modern Western Philosophy. His monograph, Hume's Difficulty: Time
and Identity in the Treatise, was published by Routledge in 2008.
The papers in the collection provide a valuable contribution to the
literature on CAI. The editors have succeeded in covering the
central issues related to CAI, and taken together they are an
example of a fruitful exchange between formal and philosophical
theories. This collection will be of interest to those working on
CAI, mereology more broadly, as well as philosophical uses of
plural logic.
*Cameron Gibbs, Philosophy in Review.*
This book is evidence that discussion of CAI has reached critical
mass. It is a timely contribution and advances debates in
meta-ontology, fundamentality, mereology, and plural logic.
*A. R. J. Fisher, Philosophical Quarterly*
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