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Personal Identity

Constitution

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. At first sight, it might seem that a full understanding of constitution – by which I mean Material Constitution – is required to understand Lynne Rudder Baker²’s Constitution View³ of Personal Identity.
  2. However, the concept of Constitution in this view seems to differ from the normal mereological⁴ view of material constitution.
  3. As a way in to this subject, which is geared towards the topic of Personal Identity, I intend in the first instance to focus on two chapters from "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View", namely:-
     1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Very Idea of Constitution", and
     2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution".
        
  4. I will then look at two chapters from Baker’s book "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism" that deal, respectively, with these two aspects of Constitution, namely:-
     1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Constitution Revisited",
     2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Mereology and Constitution".
  5. I will, of course, have to consider other accounts. I had supposed that Baker’s view was idiosyncratic, though "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Constitution Question" considers it to be widely held.
  6. Wasserman outlines the traditional₅ view as follows:-
     1. Adequacy conditions on any proposed answer to the Constitution Question.
        • First, constitution requires spatial coincidence — x constitutes y at t only if x and y have the same spatial location at t.
        • Second, constitution requires material coincidence — x constitutes y at t only if x and y have all the same parts.
     2. The formal properties of the constitution relation (are)
        • First, the constitution relation is transitive. So, consider a representative clay statue (Statue) and the lump of clay (Lump) from which it is made. If Lump is constituted by a certain aggregate of elementary particles and Statue is constituted by Lump, then Statue is also constituted by that particular aggregate of elementary particles.
        • Second, the constitution relation is irreflexive, for the defenders of the constitution view traditionally deny that objects like Lump and Statue constitute themselves.
        • Finally, the constitution relation is asymmetric; while Lump constitutes Statue, Statue does not constitute Lump.
     3. Constitution is not mere coincidence, for coincidence (the sharing of spatial location or parts) is both reflexive and symmetric.
     4. In summary, constitution requires material (as well as spatial) coincidence and that it is a transitive, irreflexive, asymmetric relation.
  7. Various papers by Eric Olson, of course, also consider the topic, which he considers would be fatal to animalism if it would be were it true. I should probably start with "Olson (Eric) - Composition and Coincidence".
  8. There may also be an overlap between Constitution and Supervenience⁶.
  9. The various cases of ‘coincidence’ – addressed later in this Chapter – highlight the question whether the constitution-relation is or is not the identity-relation. Is there anything left out in the description of a thing once we’ve said what it is made up of, and how these parts link together? Those – like Baker – who hold that one whole thing can be constituted by another whole thing deny identity. For instance – Baker says – a stature is something over and above its clay because it requires an external relation – to an art-world, or at least to people who care about statues – before it is a statue.

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  Further Remarks:
  1. The usual puzzle-cases must be treated separately:-
     • Dion and Theon⁷
     • Problem of the Many⁸
     • Statue and the Clay⁹
     • Tibbles the Cat¹⁰
  2. There are many accounts of the mereological type of Constitution, in particular:-
     • "Jubien (Michael) - Things and Their Parts", and
     • "Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader"
  3. A reading list for this topic is difficult to prepare without stepping on the ground already covered by:-
     • Coincidence¹¹
     • The Constitution View¹²,
     • Mereology¹³, and (maybe)
     • Supervenience¹⁴.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Constitution Revisited", 2007
  2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Mereology and Constitution", 2007, Read = 7%
  3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View", 2000, Book, Read
  4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁵, Internal PDF Link, Read
  5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism", 2007, Book, Read = 2%
  6. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Very Idea of Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁶, Internal PDF Link, Read
  7. "Jubien (Michael) - Things and Their Parts", 1997, Read
  8. "Olson (Eric) - Composition and Coincidence", 1996, Internal PDF Link
  9. "Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader", 1997, Book, Read = 41%
  10. "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Constitution Question", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
• For a Page of Links¹⁷ to this Note, Click here. Unfortunately there are far too many links to process.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁸, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View", 2000, Book
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁹, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Very Idea of Constitution", 2000, Write-Up Note²⁰, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution", 1999, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Why Constitution is Not Identity", 1997, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Doyle (Robert O.) - Material Constitution", 2021, No Abstract, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Fine (Kit) - The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter", 2003, Write-Up Note²¹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    8. "Hawley (Katherine) - Principles of Composition and Criteria of Identity", 2006, Annotations
    9. "Hazlett (Allan) - Disassembly and Destruction", 2006, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Johnston (Mark) - Constitution is Not Identity", 1997, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Jubien (Michael) - Things and Their Parts", 1997
    12. "Look (Brandon C.) - The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity", 2008, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Merricks (Trenton) - Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience", 1998, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Noonan (Harold) - Constitution Is Identity", 1993, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Noonan (Harold) - Identity, Constitution and Microphysical Supervenience", 1999, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    16. "Olson (Eric) - Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem", 2001, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Rea (Michael) - Material Constitution: Preface, Introduction & Appendix (A Formal Statement of the Problem)", 1997, No Abstract
• A further reading list might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Arntzenius (Frank) & Hawthorne (John) - Gunk And Continuous Variation", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Constitution Revisited", 2007
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Mereology and Constitution", 2007, Read = 7%
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - On Making Things Up: Constitution and Its Critics", 2002, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism", 2007, Book, Read = 2%
    6. "Balaguer (Mark) - How to Be a Fictionalist About Material Constitution (And Just About Anything Else)", 2020, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 8%
    7. "Balaguer (Mark) - Why the debate about composition is factually empty (or why there’s no fact of the matter whether anything exists)", 2018, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    8. "Baxter (Donald L.M.) - Altruism, Grief, and Identity", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Divers (John) - Coincidence and Form", 2008, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Doepke (Frederick) - The Constitution Relation", 1996, Read = 10%
    11. "Fine (Kit) - Arguing for Non-Identity: A Response to King and Frances", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    12. "Forrest (Peter) - Grit or Gunk: Implications of the Banach-Tarski Paradox", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Hawthorne (John) & Weatherson (Brian) - Chopping Up Gunk", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Hazen (Allen) - Hypergunk", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Hershenov (David) - Lowe's Defense of Constitution and the Principle of Weak Extensionality", 2008
    16. "Hirsch (Eli) - Peter van Inwagen's Material Beings", 1993, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Horgan (Terence) - On What There Isn't", 1993, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Johansson (Ingvar) - Constitution as a Relation within Mathematics", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 25%
    19. "Jones (Tessa) - The Constitution of Events", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    20. "Kleinschmidt (Shieva) - Bibliography on Things and Stuff", 2006?, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
    21. "Koslicki (Kathrin) - Almost Indiscernible Objects and the Suspect Strategy", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 10%
    22. "Koslicki (Kathrin) - Mereological Sums and Singular Terms", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    23. "Koslicki (Kathrin) - Varieties of Ontological Dependence", 2012, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 12%
    24. "Lowe (E.J.) - Identity and Constitution", 1989, No Abstract
    25. "Lowe (E.J.) - Instantiation, Identity and Constitution", 1983, No Abstract
    26. "Lowe (E.J.) - Mereological Extensionality, Supplementation, and Material Constitution", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 20%
    27. "Mason (Franklin) - How Not to Prove the Existence of ‘Atomless Gunk’", 2000, Internal PDF Link
    28. "McDaniel (Kris) - Against composition as identity", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    29. "Mertz (D.W.) - The Nature and Necessity of Composite Simples, E.g., Ontic Predicates", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Michaels (Meredith) - Identity through time: one last run for the ordinary view", 1983, No Abstract
    31. "Miller (Kristie) - Defending Substantivism About Disputes In The Metaphysics Of Composition", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 4%
    32. "Newman (Andrew) - On the Constitution of Solid Objects out of Atoms", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 14%
    33. "Nolan (Daniel) - Classes, Worlds and Hypergunk", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    34. "Olson (Eric) - Composition and Coincidence", 1996, Internal PDF Link
    35. "Paul (L.A.) - Constitutive Overdetermination", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    36. "Persson (Ingmar) - Review of Peter Van Inwagen's 'Material Beings'", 1993, Internal PDF Link
    37. "Rea (Michael) - The Problem of Material Constitution", 1995, Internal PDF Link
    38. "Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader", 1997, Book, Read = 41%
    39. "Rosenberg (Jay) - Comments on Peter van Inwagen's Material Beings", 1993, Internal PDF Link
    40. "Shoemaker (Sydney) - Physical Realization", 2007, Book
    41. "Sidelle (Alan) - Is There a True Metaphysics of Material Objects?", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    42. "Sider (Ted) - Consequences of Collapse", 2014, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    43. "Sider (Ted) - Van Inwagen and the Possibility of Gunk", 1993, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    44. "Simons (Peter) - Extended Simples: A Third Way Between Atoms and Gunk", 2004, Internal PDF Link
    45. "Sutton (Catherine S.) - Against the Maximality Principle", 2014, Internal PDF Link, Read = 22%
    46. "Thomasson (Amie L.) - The Ontological Significance of Constitution", 2013, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    47. "Thomson (Judith Jarvis) - Parthood and Identity Across Time", 2006, Internal PDF Link, Read = 44%, Footnote₂₂
    48. "Various - The Monist: Constitution and Composition", 2013, Book, Read = 10%
    49. "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Constitution Question", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
    50. "Wolterstorff (Nicholas P.) - Toward an Ontology of Art Works", 1975, Internal PDF Link
    51. "Wolterstorff (Nicholas P.) - Worlds of Works of Art", 1976, Internal PDF Link
    52. "Zimmerman (Dean) - Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution", 1995, Internal PDF Link
• For further papers held on-line of potential interest, follow this Link²³. Total papers = 2.

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder²⁴.

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 5:

1. This makes it sound as though the CV goes back centuries!
2. Wasserman uses the term “traditionally” when he probably just means “usually” or “standardly”.

Footnote 22:

• Recommended by Robert O. Doyle under the head of “Material Constitution”, but it’s to do with Temporal Parts.
• Might be better placed under Perdurantism or Mereology?

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Table of the Previous 12 Versions of this Note:

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20/09/2022 11:24:00	8203	Constitution
09/05/2022 17:15:22	7358	Constitution
02/07/2021 20:32:38	7462	Constitution
09/02/2021 00:40:19	6659	Constitution
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09/09/2009 22:35:02	341	Constitution
26/11/2007 23:25:26	341	Constitution
12/08/2007 10:17:46	80	Constitution

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Constitution	Research - Proposal

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker	Baker - The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution	Coincidence
Constitution View - Objections	Dion and Theon	Fine - The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter	Mereology	Note Links Explanation
Perdurantism	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage	Plug Note Apologia	Problem of the Many	Statue and the Clay
Supervenience	Tibbles the Cat	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Artifacts	Baker	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Baker - Persons in the Material World, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?
Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons	Baker - The Very Idea of Constitution	Bodily Continuity	Brain	Brain Criterion
Bundle Theories	Cartesian Ego	Constitution View	Constitution View - Objections, 2, 3	Contingent Identity
DeGrazia - Are We Essentially Persons?	First-Person Perspective	Fusion	Human Beings	Intermittent Objects, 2, 3
Interregnum	Johnston - Human Beings, 2	Kurtz - Persistence (Introduction)	Matter	Mereology, 2, 3
Noonan - Persons and Bodies - Response	Occasional Identity	Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2	Olson - What Are We? Constitution	Only 'X' and 'Y' Principle
PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Process Metaphysics	Properties	Statue and the Clay, 2	Supervenience
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3, 4	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View), 2, 3
Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Anscombe (G.E.M.)	Were You a Zygote?	Paper		Yes
Bailey (Andrew M.)	N/A	Author
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	N/A	Author	2
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Embryos and Stem­Cell Research	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Constitution	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper		Yes
Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie)	Talking about a Universalist World	Paper
Crull (Elise)	You thought quantum mechanics was weird: check out entangled time	Paper		Yes
DeGrazia (David)	Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply	Paper		Yes
Doyle (Robert O.)	N/A	Author
Johnston (Mark)	Human Beings	Paper	2	Yes
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper		Yes
Kurtz (Roxanne)	Introduction to Persistence: What’s the Problem?	Paper		Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Arguments Against Animalism: Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper		Yes
Smith (Barry C.), Broks (Paul), Kennedy (A.L.) & Evans (Jules)	Audio: What Does It Mean to Be Me?	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	Philosophy and the Mind/Body Problem	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Artifacts	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Baker	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bodily Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Brain Criterion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bundle Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Cartesian Ego	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View - Objections	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Contingent Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - First-Person Perspective	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Fusion	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Intermittent Objects	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Interregnum	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Matter	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mereology	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Occasional Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Only 'X' and 'Y' Principle	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Process Metaphysics	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Properties	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Statue and the Clay	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Supervenience	Paper		Yes
Wiggins (David)	On Being in the Same Place at the Same Time	Paper		Yes
Young (Damon) & Priest (Graham)	It is and it isn’t	Paper		Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Armstrong (David)	Reply to David Lewis's 'Many, but Almost One'	Paper - By Subtopic	Bacon, Campbell & Reinhardt - Ontology, Causality and Mind	No
Arntzenius (Frank) & Hawthorne (John)	Gunk And Continuous Variation	Paper - Cited	Monist, Oct2005, Vol. 88 Issue 4, p441-465, 25p	No
Arsenijevic (Milos)	How Many Physically Distinguished Parts Can a Limited Body Contain?	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 49, 1989, 36-42	No
Bacon (John), Campbell (Keith) & Reinhardt (Lloyd)	Ontology, Causality and Mind	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bacon (John), Campbell (Keith) & Reinhardt (Lloyd) - Ontology, Causality and Mind	4%
Bailey (Andrew M.)	The Incompatibility of Composition as Identity, Priority Pluralism, and Irreflexive Grounding	Paper - By Subtopic	Analytic Philosophy Vol. 52 No. 3, September 2011, pp. 171–174	17%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	A Metaphysics of Ordinary Things and Why We Need It	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy, 83:5–24, 2008	6%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Artifacts	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 3	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Beginning in the middle	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 1	19%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Commonsense Causation	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 5	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Constitution Revisited	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 8	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Five Ontological Issues	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 11	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	From Consciousness to Self-Consciousness	Paper - By Subtopic	Grazer Philosophische Studien 84 (2012), 19–38	6%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Human Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 4	4%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Human Persons as Social Entities	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Social Ontology 2015; 1(1): 77–87	11%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Mereology and Constitution	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 9	7%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	On the Twofold Nature of Artefacts: A Response to Wybo Houkes and Anthonie Meijers	Paper - By Subtopic	Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 37:132–36, 2006	17%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Cited	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'Objects and Persons' by Trenton Merricks	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81 (2003): 97-98	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Shrinking Difference - Response to Replies	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Association Newsletter: Philosophy and Computers, 09(2):3–38, 2010	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 7, pp. 167-190	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Metaphysics of Everyday Life	Paper - By Subtopic	Erasmus University (Rotterdam), October 13, 2003	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism	Book - Cited	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism	2%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Metaphysics of Malfunction	Paper - By Subtopic	Forthcoming in Techne, though presented at a conference (Artefacts in Philosophy) at the Delft University of Technology, Oct. 3-4, 2004.	7%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Reality of Ordinary Things	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism, Chapter 2	5%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Shrinking Difference Between Artifacts and Natural Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers, 7(2), Spring 2008	11%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Constitution	Paper - Cited	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 2, pp. 27-58	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences, July, 1999	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Unity without Identity: A New Look at Material Constitution	Paper - Cited	Midwest Studies In Philosophy, 1999, Vol. XXIII Issue 1, p144, 22p	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Why Constitution is Not Identity	Paper - Cited	Journal of Philosophy 94, No. 12 (Dec., 1997), 599-621	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder), Etc.	E-Symposium on 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Book - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder), Etc. - E-Symposium on 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Yes
Balaguer (Mark)	Conceptual analysis and x-phi	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, vol. 193 (August 2016), pp. 2367-388	6%
Balaguer (Mark)	How to Be a Fictionalist About Material Constitution (And Just About Anything Else)	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Fictionalism, B. Armour-Garb and F. Kroon (eds.), OUP, 2020	8%
Balaguer (Mark)	Why metaphysical debates are not merely verbal (or how to have a non-verbal metaphysical debate)	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Online First. Accepted: 9 March 2017	6%
Balaguer (Mark)	Why the debate about composition is factually empty (or why there’s no fact of the matter whether anything exists)	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, vol. 195 (2018), pp. 3975-4008	7%
Bennett (Jonathan)	Analysis without Noise	Paper - By Subtopic	Bogdan - Mind and common sense : philosophical essays on commonsense psychology	No
Bennett (Jonathan)	How to Read Minds in Behaviour: A Suggestion from a Philosopher	Paper - By Subtopic	Whiten - Natural theories of mind : evolution, development and simulation of everyday mindreading	No
Bennett (Karen)	Global Supervenience and Dependence	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 68, No. 3 (May, 2004), pp. 501-529	No
Bennett (Karen)	Spatio-Temporal Coincidence and the Grounding Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 118.3: April 2004, pp. 339-371	15%
Blatti (Stephan)	Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Bob Barnard and Neil Manson (Continuum, 2012), 149-69	28%
Blatti (Stephan)	No Impediment to Solidity as Impediment	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica 7.1 (2006), pp. 35-42	17%
Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds.	Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Bottani (Andrea C.), Carrara (Massimiliano) & Giaretta (Pierdaniele), Eds. - Individuals, Essence And Identity: Themes of Analytic Metaphysics	1%
Burge (Tyler)	A Theory of Aggregates	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous 11.2, May 1977, pp. 97-117	No
Burge (Tyler)	Mind-Body Causation and Explanatory Practice	Paper - By Subtopic	Heil and Mele - Mental Causation	No
Burke (Michael)	Coinciding Objects: Reply to Lowe and Denkel	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 57.1, Jan 1997, p11, 8p	No
Burke (Michael)	Copper Statues and Pieces of Copper: A Challenge to the Standard Account	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 52, 1992, pp. 12-17	Yes
Callender (Craig)	Humean supervenience and rotating homogeneous matter	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, Volume 110, Number 437, 1 January 2001, pp. 25-44(20)	No
Cameron (Ross P.)	The Contingency of Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 136, No. 1, Selected Papers from the 2006 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference (Oct., 2007), pp. 99-121	No
Carter (William)	Dion's Left Foot (and the Price of Burkean Economy)	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75, No. 2 (Jun. 1997), 371-379	Yes
Carter (William)	In Defense of Undetached Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 64, 1983, 126-143	Yes
Carter (William)	Salmon on Artifact Origins and Lost Possibilities	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review 92, No. 2, Apr., 1983, pp. 223-231	No
Chandler (Hugh S.)	Constitutivity and Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	No
Corcoran (Kevin)	Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	Book - By Subtopic	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	13%
Cotnoir (Aaron J.)	Composition as General Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	St. Andrews' Website; Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, (eds.) K. Bennett and D. Zimmerman, vol 8, OUP, 295-322, 2013	No
Cotnoir (Aaron J.)	Composition as Identity: Framing the Debate	Paper - By Subtopic	Composition as Identity (eds.) A. J. Cotnoir and Donald L. M. Baxter, OUP, 2014	No
Danto (Arthur)	The Artworld	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 61, No. 19, Oct. 15, 1964, pp. 571-584	No
De Monticelli (Roberta)	Constitution and Unity: Lynne Baker and the Unitarian Tradition	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 3-36	7%
Denkel (Arda)	Artifacts and Constituents	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55, No. 2, Jun., 1995, pp. 311-322	No
deRosset (Louis)	What is the Grounding Problem?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, 152(2), 2010, 173-197	5%
Divers (John)	Coincidence and Form	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 82 (2008), pp. 119-137	No
Doyle (Robert O.)	Material Constitution	Paper - Cited	Personal Website	Yes
Fine (Kit)	Arguing for Non-Identity: A Response to King and Frances	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, Vol. 115, No. 460 (Oct., 2006), pp. 1059-1082	5%
Fine (Kit)	Coincidence and Form	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes, Vol. 82 (2008), pp. 101-118	No
Fine (Kit)	The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter	Paper - Cited	Mind - 112/446 (April 2003)	Yes
Forrest (Peter)	Grit or Gunk: Implications of the Banach-Tarski Paradox	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2004, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p351-370, 20p	No
Frances (Bryan)	Externalism, Physicalism, Statues, and Hunks	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 133, No. 2 (Mar., 2007), pp. 199-232	No
Francescotti (Robert)	Psychological Continuity and the Necessity of Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 4, Oct. 2010	8%
Francescotti (Robert)	Statues and Their Constituents: Whether Consitution is Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica 4.2 (2003), pp. 59-78	No
French (Peter) & Wettstein (Howard), Eds.	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol XXIII) - New Directions in Philosophy	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	9%
French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard)	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV, 1979) - Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard) - Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV, 1979) - Metaphysics	1%
Gale (Richard), Ed.	The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Gale (Richard), Ed. - The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics	4%
Geach (Peter)	Reference and Generality (Selections)	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	No
Goodman (Nelson)	Comments on Wollheim's Paper	Paper - By Subtopic	Ratio 20, June 1978, pp. 49-51	No
Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds.	Persistence : Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne), Eds. - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	30%
Hawley (Katherine)	Cut the Pie Any Way You Like? Cotnoir on General Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	St. Andrews' Website; forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. 8, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman	33%
Hawley (Katherine)	Principles of Composition and Criteria of Identity	Paper - Cited	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 84.4 (December 2006), 481-93	Yes
Hawthorne (John) & Weatherson (Brian)	Chopping Up Gunk	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2004, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p339-350, 12p;	No
Hazen (Allen)	Hypergunk	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist; Jul2004, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p322-338, 17p	No
Hazlett (Allan)	Disassembly and Destruction	Paper - Cited	The Monist, Vol. 89, No. 3, Coming into Being and Passing Away (July 2006), pp. 418-433	Yes
Hirsch (Eli)	Peter van Inwagen's Material Beings	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53, No. 3, Sep., 1993, pp. 687-691	No
Horgan (Terence)	On What There Isn't	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53, No. 3, Sep., 1993, pp. 693-700	No
Hudson (Hud)	On Constitution and All-Fusions	Paper - By Subtopic	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 81 Issue 3, Sep2000, p237, 10p	No
Jackson (Frank) & Priest (Graham), Eds.	Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Jackson (Frank) & Priest (Graham), Eds. - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis	5%
Johansson (Ingvar)	Constitution as a Relation within Mathematics	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 87-100	25%
Johnston (Mark)	Constitution is Not Identity	Paper - Cited	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes
Johnston (Mark)	Hylomorphism	Paper - By Subtopic	The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 103, No. 12, Special Issue: Parts and Wholes (Dec.,2006), pp. 652-698	3%
Jones (Tessa)	The Constitution of Events	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 73-86	17%
Jubien (Michael)	Contemporary Metaphysics	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	24%
Jubien (Michael)	Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Jubien (Michael) - Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference	No
Jubien (Michael)	Things and Their Parts	Paper - By Subtopic	Jubien - Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference, 1993, Chapter 2	No
Jubien (Michael)	Things and Their Parts	Paper - Cited	Jubien - Contemporary Metaphysics, 1997, Chapter 9	Yes
Katayama (Errol)	Aristotle on Artifacts: A Metaphysical Puzzle	Book - By Subtopic	Katayama (Errol) - Aristotle on Artifacts: A Metaphysical Puzzle	No
Kleinschmidt (Shieva)	Bibliography on Things and Stuff	Paper - By Subtopic	Website	No
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Almost Indiscernible Objects and the Suspect Strategy	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 102, No. 2 (Feb., 2005), pp. 55-77	10%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Constitution and Similarity	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 117, No. 3 (Feb., 2004), pp. 327-364	6%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	In Defense of Substance	Paper - By Subtopic	Grazer Philosophische Studien, Festschrift in Honor of Peter Simons, edited by Sandra Lapointe, Vol. 91 (2015), pp. 59-80	17%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Mereological Sums and Singular Terms	Paper - By Subtopic	Mereology and Location, edited by Shieva Kleinschmidt, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2014, pp. 209-235	7%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Natural Kinds and Natural Kind Terms	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy Compass 3/4 (2008): 789–802	17%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Substance, Independence and Unity	Paper - By Subtopic	Aristotle on Method and Metaphysics, edited by Edward Feser, Palgrave/Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK, 2013, pp. 169-195	12%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	The Semantics of Mass-Predicates	Paper - By Subtopic	Noûs, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Mar., 1999), pp. 46-91	5%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Towards a Hylomorphic Solution to the Grounding Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Volume 82 (Metaphysics) - July 2018, pp. 333-364	4%
Koslicki (Kathrin)	Varieties of Ontological Dependence	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality, ed. by Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schnieder, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2012, pp.186-213	12%
Kripke (Saul)	Identity and Necessity	Paper - By Subtopic	Loux - Metaphysics - Contemporary Readings	10%
Lechthaler (Manuel)	Composition and Identities	Paper - By Subtopic	PhD Thesis, University of Otago, 28 February 2017	1%
Lechthaler (Manuel)	No universalism without gunk? Composition as Identity and the universality of identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese, Online 11 February 2019	7%
Levey (Samuel)	Coincidence and Principles of Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 57.1, 1997, 1-10	No
Lewis (David)	Counterparts or Double Lives (Selections)	Paper - By Subtopic	Lewis - On the Plurality of Worlds, 1986, Chapter 4	25%
Lillehammer (Hallvard) & Rodriguez-Pereyra (Gonzalo)	Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour of D. H. Mellor	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lillehammer (Hallvard) & Rodriguez-Pereyra (Gonzalo) - Real Metaphysics: Essays in honour of D. H. Mellor	1%
Look (Brandon C.)	The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	Book - By Subtopic	Look (Brandon C.) - The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	4%
Look (Brandon C.)	The Metaphysics of Material Beings: Constitution, Persistence, and Identity	Paper - Cited	University of Kentucky Website, Spring 2008	Yes
Loux (Michael), Ed.	Metaphysics - Contemporary Readings	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Loux (Michael), Ed. - Metaphysics - Contemporary Readings	1%
Lowe (E.J.)	Coinciding Objects: In Defence of the ‘Standard Account’	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 55.3, July 1995, pp. 171-178	11%
Lowe (E.J.)	Identity and Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Lowe - Kinds of Being, 1989, Chapter 5	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Instantiation, Identity and Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 44: 45-59, 1983	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Lowe (E.J.) - Kinds of Being: Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Material Coincidence and the Cinematographic Fallacy: A Response to Olson	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly; Jul2002, Vol. 52 Issue 208, p369-372, 4p	No
Lowe (E.J.)	Mereological Extensionality, Supplementation, and Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 131-148	20%
Lowe (E.J.)	The Problems of the Many and the Vagueness of Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 55.3, July 1995, pp. 179-182	No
Mackie (Penelope)	Coincidence and modal predicates	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Jan., 2007), pp. 21-31	22%
Markosian (Ned)	Brutal Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 92:211-249, 1998	No
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed.	Mind - 112/446 (April 2003)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	50%
Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed.	Mind - 114/455 (July 2005)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Martin (Michael G.F.), Ed. - Mind - 114/455 (July 2005)	No
Mason (Franklin)	How Not to Prove the Existence of ‘Atomless Gunk’	Paper - By Subtopic	Ratio; Jun2000, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p175, 11p	No
Matthews (Gareth B.)	Accidental unities	Paper - By Subtopic	M. Schofield and M. Nussbaum, ed., Language and Logos. Cambridge University Press. 1982	7%
McDaniel (Kris)	Against composition as identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Apr., 2008), pp. 128-133	17%
McDaniel (Kris)	Composition as Identity Does Not Entail Universalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 73, No. 1 (July 2010), pp. 97-100	17%
McKinnon (Neil)	A New Problem of the Many	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 230, Special Issue: Existence and Identity (Jan., 2008), pp. 80-97	13%
McKinnon (Neil)	Supervaluations and the Problem of the Many	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 52, No. 208 (Jul., 2002), pp. 320-339	No
McLaughlin (Brian) & Bennett (Karen)	Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2005-18	7%
Menzies (Peter)	Is Causation a Genuine Relation?	Paper - By Subtopic	Real Metaphysics: Essays in Honour of D. H. Mellor, Lillehammer, Hallvard (ed), 120-136	No
Merricks (Trenton)	Against the Doctrine of Microphysical Supervenience	Paper - Cited	Mind - 107/425 (January 1998)	Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	Composition and Vagueness	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 114, Number 455, July 2005, pp. 615-637(23)	No
Merricks (Trenton)	No Statues	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 78 (2000): 47-52.	33%
Mertz (D.W.)	The Nature and Necessity of Composite Simples, E.g., Ontic Predicates	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica 5.1 (2004), pp. 89-134	No
Michaels (Meredith)	Identity through time: one last run for the ordinary view	Paper - By Subtopic	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, April 1983; 64: 97-109	No
Miller (Kristie)	Defending Substantivism About Disputes In The Metaphysics Of Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 111 (9-10), 2014:529-556	4%
Miller (Kristie)	Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity: Persistence, Composition, and Time	4%
Miller (Kristie)	Issues of Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	Miller (Kristie) - Issues in Theoretical Diversity, Chapter 4	No
Miller (Kristie)	Non-mereological Universalism	Paper - By Subtopic	European Journal of Philosophy 14 (3):404–422 (2006)	6%
Miller (Kristie)	The Existential Quantifier, Composition and Contingency	Paper - By Subtopic	Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 73, No. 2 (September 2010), pp. 211-235	5%
Moyer (Mark)	Defending Coincidence: An Explanation of a Sort	Paper - By Subtopic	Unpublished draft, 2003	3%
Moyer (Mark)	Statues and Lumps: A Strange Coincidence?	Paper - By Subtopic	Synthese 148 (1/2006), 401-423	5%
Moyer (Mark)	Weak and Global Supervenience Are Strong	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 138, No. 1 (Mar., 2008), pp. 125-150	No
Newman (Andrew)	On the Constitution of Solid Objects out of Atoms	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 149-171	14%
Nolan (Daniel)	Classes, Worlds and Hypergunk	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist; Jul2004, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p303-321, 19p	No
Noonan (Harold)	Constitution Is Identity	Paper - Cited	Mind, 102.405 (Jan. 1993), 133-146	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Identity, Constitution and Microphysical Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 271-288, 1999	Yes
Noonan (Harold)	Tibbles the Cat - A Reply to Burke	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 95:215-218, 1999	No
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed.	Metaphysics	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Metaphysics	8%
Olson (Eric)	Composition and Coincidence	Paper - Cited	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 77 (1996), pp. 374-403	No
Olson (Eric)	Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly 51, No. 204, July 2001	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Objects and Their Matter	Paper - By Subtopic	Olson's Website; To appear in R. Garcia, Ed., Substance, Philosophia Verlag.	19%
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	16%
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	16%
Olson (Eric)	Why I Have No Hands	Paper - By Subtopic	Theoria 61 (1995): 182-197	Yes
Parsons (Josh)	Dion, Theon, and DAUP	Paper - By Subtopic	Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 85 (2004)	Yes
Paul (L.A.)	Coincidence as Overlap	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous 40:4 (2006) 623–659	No
Paul (L.A.)	Constitutive Overdetermination	Paper - By Subtopic	Topics in Contemporary Philosophy vol. 4: Causation and Explanation, MIT Press. Forthcoming Summer 2005.	No
Paul (L.A.)	The Context of Essence	Paper - By Subtopic	Jackson - Lewisian Themes: The Philosophy of David K. Lewis, Chapter 15	No
Persson (Ingmar)	Review of Peter Van Inwagen's 'Material Beings'	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, 27, No. 4, Dec., 1993, pp. 512-518	No
Putnam (Hilary)	Brains in a Vat	Paper - By Subtopic	Putnam - Reason, Truth and History	17%
Putnam (Hilary)	Reason, Truth and History	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Putnam (Hilary) - Reason, Truth and History	1%
Rea (Michael)	Material Constitution: Preface, Introduction & Appendix (A Formal Statement of the Problem)	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes
Rea (Michael)	Supervenience and Co-Location	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, 34(3), July 1997: 367-375	No
Rea (Michael)	The Problem of Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review, October 1995; 104(4): 525-553	No
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - Cited	Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader	41%
Robinson (Denis)	Can Amoebae Divide Without Multiplying?	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 63.3, Sept. 1985, 299-319	Yes
Rosen (Gideon) & Dorr (Cian)	Composition as a Fiction	Paper - By Subtopic	Gale - Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, 2002	5%
Rosenberg (Jay)	Comments on Peter van Inwagen's Material Beings	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53, No. 3, Sep., 1993, pp. 701-708	No
Runggaldier (Edmund)	Comments of Wiggins's 'Identity and Supervenience'	Paper - By Subtopic	Bottani - Individuals, Essence and Identity, 2002	No
Sainsbury (Mark), Ed.	Mind - 107/425 (January 1998)	Book - Cited (via Paper Cited)	Bibliographical details to be supplied	10%
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Physical Realization	Book - Cited	Shoemaker (Sydney) - Physical Realization	No
Shoemaker (Sydney)	Realization, Micro-Realization, and Coincidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Jul., 2003), pp. 1-23	No
Shorter (J.M.)	On Coinciding in Space and Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy, Vol. 52, No. 202 (Oct., 1977), pp. 399-408	No
Sidelle (Alan)	Is There a True Metaphysics of Material Objects?	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, Dec2002 Supplement, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p118-145, 28p	No
Sider (Ted)	Consequences of Collapse	Paper - By Subtopic	Forthcoming in Donald Baxter and Aaron Cotnoir, eds., Composition as Identity, OUP (2014)	No
Sider (Ted)	Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Sider (Ted) - Four-dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time	12%
Sider (Ted)	In Favour of Four-Dimensionalism, Part 2: The Best Unified Theory of the Paradoxes of Coincidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Sider - Four-dimensionalism, Chapter 5	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Persistence and Parthood Seminar	Book - By Subtopic	Sider (Ted) - Persistence and Parthood Seminar	4%
Sider (Ted)	Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 99 (2002): 45-48	Yes
Sider (Ted)	Review of Trenton Merricks' 'Objects and Persons'	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 113, Number 449, January 2004, pp. 195-198(4)	No
Sider (Ted)	Van Inwagen and the Possibility of Gunk	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 53.4, Oct. 1993, pp. 285-89	No
Sider (Ted)	Yet Another Paper on the Supervenience Argument	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (2008): 613–24	No
Simons (Peter)	Extended Simples: A Third Way Between Atoms and Gunk	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2004, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p371-384, 14p	No
Simons (Peter)	Parts: A Study in Ontology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Simons (Peter) - Parts: A Study in Ontology	2%
Simons (Peter)	Superposition, Composition and Coincidence	Paper - By Subtopic	Simons - Parts: A Study in Ontology, 1987, Chapter 6	No
Skow (Bradford)	Haecceitism, Anti-Haecceitism and Possible Worlds	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 230, Special Issue: Existence and Identity (Jan., 2008), pp. 98-107	22%
Slote (Michael)	Causality and the Concept of a 'Thing'	Paper - By Subtopic	Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol IV) - Metaphysics, 1979	No
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Against the Maximality Principle	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphysica 15, no. 2 (2014): 381 –390	22%
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Almost One, Overlap and Function	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 75, no. 1 (2015): 45–52	33%
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Colocated Objects, Tally-Ho: A Solution to the Grounding Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind 121, no. 483 (July 2012): 703 –730	4%
Sutton (Catherine S.)	Composition as Identity - A Resource Page	Paper - By Subtopic	Virginia Commonwealth University website	33%
Thomasson (Amie L.)	The Ontological Significance of Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 54-72	17%
Thomson (Judith Jarvis)	Parthood and Identity Across Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Haslanger (Sally) & Kurtz (Roxanne) - Persistence : Contemporary Readings	44%
Thomson (Judith Jarvis)	The Statue and the Clay	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, 32 (1998), pp. 149–173.	14%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Information	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Problem of the Many	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Statue and the Clay	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Tibbles the Cat	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Uzquiano (Gabriel)	Plurals and Simples	Paper - By Subtopic	Monist, Jul2004, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p429-451, 23p	No
Valentyne (Peter)	Intrinsic Properties Defined	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 88, 1997, pp. 209-219	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Existence: Essays In Ontology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Van Inwagen (Peter) - Existence: Essays In Ontology	5%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Material Constitution: Foreword	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Précis of Material Beings	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53, No. 3, Sep., 1993, pp. 683-686	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Relational vs. Constituent Ontologies	Paper - By Subtopic	Van Inwagen (Peter) - Existence: Essays In Ontology, Chapter 10	8%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Reply to Reviewers	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53, No. 3, Sep., 1993, pp. 709-719	Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	The Number of Things	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, Dec2002 Supplement, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p176-196, 21p	No
Van Inwagen (Peter)	What is an Ontological Category?	Paper - By Subtopic	Van Inwagen (Peter) - Existence: Essays In Ontology, 2014, Chapter 9	8%
Van Inwagen (Peter)	When are Objects Parts?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 1, Metaphysics (1987), pp. 21-47	12%
Various	The Monist: Constitution and Composition	Book - Cited	Various - The Monist: Constitution and Composition	10%
Varzi (Achille)	Parts, Counterparts, and Modal Occurrents	Paper - By Subtopic	Travaux de Logique, 14 (2001), 151-171	No
Varzi (Achille)	The Extensionality of Parthood and Composition	Paper - By Subtopic	The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 230, Special Issue: Existence and Identity (Jan., 2008), pp. 108-133	5%
Varzi (Achille)	Undetached Parts and Disconnected Wholes	Paper - By Subtopic	Christer Svennerlind, Jan Almäng, and Rögnvaldur Ingthorsson (eds.), Johanssonian Investigations. Essays in Honour of Ingvar Johansson on His Seventieth Birthday, Frankfurt, Ontos Verlag, 2013, pp. 696–708.	11%
Wasserman (Ryan)	Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2009-2013	No
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Constitution Question	Paper - Cited	Nous, Dec2004, Vol. 38 Issue 4, p693, 18p	67%
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Standard Objection to the Standard Account	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 111: 197-216, 2002	No
Wiggins (David)	Identity and Supervenience	Paper - By Subtopic	Bottani - Individuals, Essence and Identity, 2002	No
Wiggins (David)	Reply to Richard Wollheim	Paper - By Subtopic	Ratio 20, June 1978, pp. 52-68	No
Wollheim (Richard)	Are the criteria of identity that hold for a work of art in the different arts aesthetically relevant	Paper - By Subtopic	Ratio 20, June 1978, pp. 29-48	No
Yablo (Stephen)	Identity, Essence, and Indiscernibility	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 84.6, June 1987, pp. 293-314	No
Yablo (Stephen)	Intrinsicness	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Topics 26 (1-2):479-505 (1999)	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Coincident Objects: Could a ‘Stuff Ontology’ Help?	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 57.1, Jan 1997, p19, 9p	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	Could Extended Objects Be Made Out of Simple Parts? An Argument For 'Atomless Gunk'	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, March 1996; 56(1): 1-29	No
Zimmerman (Dean)	The Constitution of Persons by Bodies: A Critique of Lynne Rudder Baker’s Theory of Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Topics Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 295-338	3%
Zimmerman (Dean)	Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Review, vol. civ (1995), pp. 53–110	No

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