| Author |
Title |
Medium |
Source |
Read? |
| Al-Khalili (Jim) & McFadden (Johnjoe) |
Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology |
Book - Cited  |
Al-Khalili (Jim) & McFadden (Johnjoe) - Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology |
Yes |
| Allen (Robert) |
The Mereology of Events |
Paper - Cited  |
Sorites 16, December 2005 |
No |
| Bailey (Andrew M.) |
Composition and the cases |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Inquiry, 2016 Vol. 59, No. 5, 453-470 |
13% |
| Bailey (Andrew M.) & Brenner (Andrew) |
Why Composition Matters |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Canadian Journal of Philosophy (2020), 50: 8, 934–949 |
7% |
| Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.) |
Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.) - Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience |
1% |
| Bennett (M.R.) & Hacker (P.M.S.) |
The Mereological Fallacy in Neuroscience |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Bennett & Hacker - Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, Chapter 3 |
No |
| Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie) |
Talking about a Universalist World |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Philosophical Studies: Vol. 130, No. 3 (Sep., 2006), pp. 499-534 |
3% |
| Braddon-Mitchell (David) & Miller (Kristie) |
The Physics of Extended Simples |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Analysis, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Jul., 2006), pp. 222-226 |
17% |
| Brennan (Andrew) |
Conditions of Identity |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Brennan (Andrew) - Conditions of Identity |
0% |
| Brennan (Andrew) |
Structure and Stuff |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Brennan - Conditions of Identity, 1988, Chapter 6 |
No |
| Brennan (Andrew) |
Structure and Survival |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Brennan - Conditions of Identity, 1988, Chapter 3 |
No |
| Brown (Joshua D.K.) |
Natural Objects |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2016) pp. 254-271 |
7% |
| Bynum (Caroline) |
Metamorphosis and Identity |
Book - Cited |
Bynum (Caroline) - Metamorphosis and Identity |
0% |
| Calosi (Claudio) |
Is Parthood Identity? |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Synthese 198 (Suppl 18):4503-4517 (2018) |
13% |
| Carter (William) |
In Defense of Undetached Parts |
Paper - Cited |
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 64, 1983, 126-143 |
Yes |
| Chisholm (Roderick) |
Mereological Essentialism |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Chisholm - Person and Object, 1976, Appendix B |
No |
| Chisholm (Roderick) |
On Metaphysics |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Chisholm (Roderick) - On Metaphysics |
10% |
| Chisholm (Roderick) |
Parts As Essential To Their Wholes |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Chisholm - On Metaphysics,1989, Chapter 7 |
No |
| Chisholm (Roderick) |
Person and Object |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Chisholm (Roderick) - Person and Object |
1% |
| Davis (Lawrence H.) |
Smart on Conditions of Identity |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Analysis, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jan., 1973), pp. 109-110 |
No |
| Doyle (Robert O.) |
Composition (Parts and Wholes) |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Personal Website |
56% |
| Fairchild (Maegan) & Hawthorne (John) |
Against Conservatism in Metaphysics |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Volume 82 (Metaphysics) - July 2018, pp. 45-75 |
4% |
| French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard) |
Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol XI) - Studies in Essentialism |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
French (Peter), Uehling (Theodore) & Wettstein (Howard) - Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol XI) - Studies in Essentialism |
No |
| Geddes (Alexander) |
Pregnancy, Parthood and Proper Overlap |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Philosophical Quarterly 73 (2):476-491 (2023) |
Yes |
| Gilmore (Cody) |
Location and Mereology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2013-18 |
4% |
| Hales (Steven D.), Ed. |
Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Hales (Steven D.), Ed. - Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings |
6% |
| Hawley (Katherine) |
Almost Identical, Almost Innocent |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, Volume 82 (Metaphysics) - July 2018, pp. 249-263 |
17% |
| Hawley (Katherine) |
Mereology, Modality and Magic |
Paper - By Subtopic |
St. Andrews' Website; Australasian Journal of Philosophy 88.1 (March 2010), 117-133 |
13% |
| Hershenov (David) |
Organisms, Artifacts, and Eliminativism |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. (Resubmission Requested). |
4% |
| Hershenov (David) |
Persons as Proper Parts of Organisms |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Theoria, 71:1, 2005, 29-37 |
11% |
| Hudson (Hud) |
A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person |
2% |
| Hudson (Hud) |
Vagueness and Composition |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Hudson (Hud) - A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person, 2001, Chapter 3, pp. 72-112 |
No |
| Hughes (Christopher) |
Is a Thing Just the Sum of Its Parts |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series, Vol. 86 (1985 - 1986), pp. 213-233 |
11% |
| Jubien (Michael) |
A Theory of Names |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Jubien - Ontology, Modality, and the Fallacy of Reference, 1993, Chapter 4 |
No |
| 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 |
| Koslicki (Kathrin) |
Aristotle's Mereology and the Status of Form |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Journal of Philosophy , Dec., 2006, Vol. 103, No. 12, Special Issue: Parts and
Wholes (Dec., 2006), pp. 715-736 |
6% |
| Lewis (David) |
Composition As Identity |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Lewis - Parts of Classes, Section 3.6 |
Yes |
| Lewis (David) |
Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Lewis (David) - Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology |
5% |
| Lewis (David) |
Parts of Classes |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Lewis (David) - Parts of Classes |
3% |
| Lewis (David) |
Rearrangement of Particles: Reply to Lowe |
Paper - By Subtopic  |
Analysis 48, 1988, pp. 65-72 |
11% |
| Lowe (E.J.) |
Entity, Identity and Unity |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 48, No. 2/3, Analytical Ontology (1998), pp. 191-208 |
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.) |
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.) |
More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Lowe (E.J.) - More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity and the Logic of Sortal Terms |
3% |
| Lowe (E.J.) |
Parts and Wholes |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Lowe - Kinds of Being, 1989, Chapter 6 |
No |
| Lowe (E.J.) |
Parts and Wholes |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Lowe (E.J.) - More Kinds of Being: Chapter 7 |
No |
| Markosian (Ned) |
Restricted Composition |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. - Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, 2008 |
10% |
| 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 |
| Meirav (Ariel) |
Wholes, Sums and Unities |
Book - By Subtopic |
Meirav (Ariel) - Wholes, Sums and Unities |
No |
| Meirav (Ariel) |
Wholes, Sums and Unities |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Meirav (Ariel) - Wholes, Sums and Unities |
No |
| Mellor (D.H.) |
Micro-composition |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Birkbeck Philosophy Society, 15 Jan 2008 |
33% |
| Merricks (Trenton) |
Composition as Identity, Mereological Essentialism, and Counterpart Theory |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 77: 192-195. June 1999. |
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) |
Sparse Parts |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Sorites 17, December 2006 |
No |
| Miller (Kristie) |
Stuff |
Paper - By Subtopic |
American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Jan., 2009), pp. 1-18 |
13% |
| Moltmann (Friederike) |
Ontological Dependence, Spatial Location, and Part Structure |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Claudio Masolo, Roberta Ferrario, Stefano Borgo and Laure Vieu (eds.): Ontology Makes Sense. Essays in Honor of Nicola Guarino, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2019 |
22% |
| Moran (Alexander P.) |
The Paradox of Decrease and Dependent Parts |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Penultimate draft. Final draft published in Ratio, 31 (3): 273-284 (2018) |
13% |
| 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% |
| Oderberg (David) |
Survivalism, Corruptionism, and Mereology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 4 (2012): 1-26 |
5% |
| O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. |
Metaphysics |
Book - By Subtopic |
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Metaphysics |
8% |
| O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. |
Philosophy - 79/309 (July 2004) |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
O'Hear (Anthony), Ed. - Philosophy - 79/309 (July 2004) |
24% |
| Olson (Eric) |
Properties as parts of ordinary objects |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Keller JA (Ed.), Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen (pp. 62-79). Oxford University Press. 2017 |
6% |
| Perrett (Roy W.) |
The Momentariness of Simples |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Philosophy - 79, Jul2004, Issue 309, p435-445, 11p, 1 diagram |
No |
| Plantinga (Alvin) |
On Mereological Essentialism |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Review of Metaphysics 1975, pp. 468-476 |
No |
| Salmon (Nathan) |
Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophy Papers 1 |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Salmon (Nathan) - Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophy Papers 1 |
0% |
| Salmon (Nathan) |
Modal Paradox: Parts and Counterparts, Points and Counterpoints |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Salmon - Reference and Essence, 2005, Appendix 4 |
No |
| Salmon (Nathan) |
Reference and Essence |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Salmon (Nathan) - Reference and Essence |
4% |
| Salmon (Nathan) |
Wholes, Parts, and Numbers |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Salmon (Nathan) - Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning, 2005 |
8% |
| Sanford (David H.) |
Distinctness and non-identity |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Analysis 65, October 2005, pp. 269-274(6) |
No |
| Sanford (David H.) |
The Problem of the Many, Many Composition Questions, and Naive Mereology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Nous, 27, No. 2, Jun., 1993, pp. 219-228 |
22% |
| Scaltsas (Theodore) |
Is a Whole Identical to its Parts? |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Mind, Vol. 99, No. 396, Oct., 1990, pp. 583-598 |
No |
| Scaltsas (Theodore) |
The Ship of Theseus |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Analysis, Vol. 40, No. 3 (Jun., 1980), pp. 152-157 |
No |
| Sider (Ted) |
Parthood |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Philosophical Review 116 (2007): 51–91 |
6% |
| Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. |
Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. - Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics |
10% |
| Simons (Peter) |
Essential Parts |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Simons - Parts: A Study in Ontology, 1987, Chapter 7 |
No |
| Simons (Peter) |
Introduction to Mereology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Hales (Steven D.), Ed. - Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings |
No |
| Simons (Peter) |
Parts: A Study in Ontology |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Simons (Peter) - Parts: A Study in Ontology |
2% |
| 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% |
| Smart (Brian) |
How to Reidentify the Ship of Theseus |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Analysis, Vol. 32, No. 5 (Apr., 1972), pp. 145-148 |
No |
| Smart (Brian) |
The Ship of Theseus, the Parthenon and Disassembled Objects |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Analysis, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Oct., 1973), pp. 24-27 |
No |
| 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% |
| Sutton (Catherine S.) |
The Supervenience Solution to the Too-Many-Thinkers Problem |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Philosophical Quarterly 64, no. 257 (October 2014): 619 –639 |
11% |
| Tanksley (Charley) |
The Mereological Constancy Of Masses |
Paper - By Subtopic |
The Philosophical Quarterly (1950-), Vol. 60, No. 239 (April 2010), pp. 343-354 |
No |
| Todman (Theo) |
Thesis - Mereology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
|
Yes |
| Van Cleve (James) |
Mereological Essentialism, Mereological Conjunctivism, and Identity Through Time |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Midwest Studies in Philosophy (Vol XI) - Studies in Essentialism |
No |
| Van Cleve (James) |
The Moon and Sixpence: a Defense of Mereological Universalism |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Sider (Ted), Hawthorne (John) & Zimmerman (Dean), Eds. - Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, 2008 |
11% |
| Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Van Inwagen - Material Beings; 1990; Ch. 6 |
No |
| Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Van Inwagen - Material Beings; 1990; Ch. 7 |
No |
| Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Can Mereological Sums Change their Parts |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Van Inwagen (Peter) - Existence: Essays In Ontology, Chapter 2 |
40% |
| Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Composition As Identity |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Van Inwagen - Ontology, Identity and Modality, Part II: Identity, Chapter 6, 1994 |
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 Beings |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Van Inwagen (Peter) - Material Beings |
27% |
| Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Naive Mereology, Admissible Valuations, and Other Matters |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Nous, 27, No. 2, Jun., 1993, pp. 229-234 |
33% |
| Van Inwagen (Peter) |
Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Van Inwagen (Peter) - Ontology, Identity and Modality: Essays in metaphysics |
17% |
| Van Inwagen (Peter) |
The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Van Inwagen - Ontology, Identity and Modality, Part II: Identity, Chapter 5, 1981 |
No |
| Varzi (Achille) |
Mereological Commitments |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Dialectica 54:4 (2000), 283-305 |
No |
| Varzi (Achille) |
Mereology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, 2003-9 |
2% |
| Varzi (Achille) |
Parts, Wholes, and Part-Whole Relations: The Prospects of Mereotopology |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Data and Knowledge Engineering, 20:3 (1996), 259-86 |
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% |
| Wandinger (Nikolaus) |
Masses of Stuff and Identity |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 48, No. 2/3, Analytical Ontology (1998), pp. 303-307 |
No |
| Wiggins (David) |
Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity |
Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic) |
Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity |
14% |
| Wiggins (David) |
Mereological Essentialism and Chisholm on Parts, Wholes, and Primary Things |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity |
22% |
| Wiggins (David) |
On Singling Out an Object Determinately |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Pettit & McDowell - Subject, Thought and Context, 1986 |
No |
| Wiggins (David) |
The De Re 'Must', Individuative Essentialism, and the Necessity of Identity |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Wiggins (David) - Continuants: Their Activity, Their Being, and Their Identity |
10% |
| Williams (J. Robbie G.) |
Working Parts: Reply to Mellor |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 62:81-106 (2008) |
5% |
| Zimmerman (Dean) |
Criteria of Identity and the 'Identity Mystics' |
Paper - By Subtopic |
Erkenntnis (1975-), Vol. 48, No. 2/3, Analytical Ontology (1998), pp. 281-301 |
No |