Identity, extensionality and constitution

October 24, 2019
The Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University

P.J. Veth Building
Room 0.06
Netherlands

Sponsor(s):

  • Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

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University of St. Andrews
University of St. Andrews
Leiden University
Humboldt-University, Berlin
Nottingham University (PhD)

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Leiden University

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This workshop focuses on the interplay between mereological principles and the individuation of entities. Classical mereology subscribes to extensionality principles, according to which, if objects have the same parts, they are the same object. Some go further and even subscribe to the idea that a whole is simply identical to its parts. Well-known constitution cases pull us in the opposite direction however: one might think that a statue and a lump of clay have the same parts, but are nevertheless distinct things. This workshop aims to generate a discussion of these different pulls on individuation and composition, bringing together speakers who explore different ways of answering them.

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October 23, 2019, 1:00pm CET

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