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by Kathrin Koslicki

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Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary material objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse. She focuses particularly on the question of how the parts of such objects are related to the wholes which they compose.

Many philosophers today find themselves in the grip of an exceedingly deflationary conception of what it means to be an object. According to this conception, any plurality of objects, no matter how disparate or gerrymandered, itself composes an object, even if the objects in question fail to exhibit interesting similarities, internal unity, cohesion, or causal interaction amongst each other.

This commitment to initially counterintuitive objects follows from the belief that no principled set of criteria is available by means of which to distinguish intuitively gerrymandered objects from commonsensical ones; the project of this book is to persuade the reader that systematic principles can be found by means of which composition can be restricted, and hence that we need not embrace this deflationary approach to the question of what it means to be an object.

To this end, a more full-blooded neo-Aristotelian account of parthood and composition is developed according to which objects are structured wholes: it is integral to the existence and identity of an object, on this conception, that its parts exhibit a certain manner of arrangement. This structure-based conception of parthood and composition is explored in detail, along with some of its historical precursors as well as some of its contemporary competitors.

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  • Title The Structure of Objects
  • Author Kathrin Koslicki
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 310
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, 2008. 310p. Hardback. Philosophers interested in mereological issues will profit from Koslicki's book. Paul Hovda
  • Publication date 2008-07-15
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780199539895 / 0199539898
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Whole and parts (Philosophy), Structuralism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007048008
  • Dewey Decimal Code 111.1

About the author

Kathrin Koslicki is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her interests are metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ancient Greek philosophy, particularly Aristotle.
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