Mereology A Philosophical Introduction

includes index and biblioraphy

What is Mereology? ..........1 1. The methodology of Mereological Monism Natural Language, Literal Parthood, and Philosophical Mereology ..........17 Mereological monism : A desirable philosophical Thesis ..................31 Is mereology formal ....................39 Transitivity and other Features ..........47 2. Extensionalism Hyperextensionality and Nominalism about Structure ...........67 Mereological Monism and Nominalism ...............69 Goodman on Hyperextensionality .................71 Hyperextensionality, sets, wholes .............72 Goodman`s Approach, Atomism , Gunk .......73 Is goodman`s Approach circular...........77 Fine`s Principles of Obliteration ..........78 6. What extensionalism says ..........85 7. Extensionalism and Concrete Entities ..........93 8. Extensionalism and Abstract Entities ..........117 9. The Aulternatives to Extensionalism ...........135 3. Unrestricted Composition Mereological Fusion and Plural Logic ............149 11. The Definition of Fusion ............163 12. Allegedly countrintuitive entities ............169 13.The Argument from Vagueness..........175 14. Unrestricted composition and Metaontology ..............193