Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics) - Softcover

 
9781032288574: Powers, Parts and Wholes: Essays on the Mereology of Powers (Routledge Studies in Metaphysics)

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This volume offers a fresh exploration of the parts-whole relations within a power and among powers. While the metaphysics of powers has been extensively examined in the literature, powers have yet to be studied from the perspective of their mereology.

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Christopher J. Austin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the 'Mistakes in Living Systems: A New Conceptual Framework for the Study of Purpose in Biology' project at Reading University. His specialisation is in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of Essence in the Age of Evolution: A New Theory of Natural Kinds (Routledge, 2018).

Anna Marmodoro holds the Chair of Metaphysics in the department Philosophy of Durham University, and she is concomitantly an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford. She specializes in two research areas: metaphysics, and ancient, late antiquity and medieval philosophy. Her latest monograph is Forms and Structure in Plato's Metaphysics (2021).

Andrea Roselli has been part of the Oxford-based Mereology of Potentiality research group for the last three years, while being a postdoctoral research associate at Durham University. He is specialised in Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Time.

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ISBN 10:  1032288566 ISBN 13:  9781032288567
Verlag: Routledge, 2023
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