Are The Statue and The Clay Mutual Parts?

Walters, Lee

doi:10.1111/nous.12204

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“…Nothing of substance turns on these assumptions. (But see Walters (2019) and Goodman (MS) for recent defences of anti-symmetry. )…”

Section: Parthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pregnancy, Parthood and Proper Overlap: A Critique of Kingma

Geddes

2022

The Philosophical Quarterly

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Elselijn Kingma argues that, in cases of mammalian placental pregnancy, the foster (roughly, the post-implantation embryo/foetus) is part of the gravida (the pregnant organism). But she does not consider the possibility of proper overlap. I show that this generates a number of serious problems for her argument and trace the oversight to a quite general issue within the literature on biological individuality. Doing so provides an opportunity to pull apart and clarify the relations between some importantly distinct questions concerning organismality and organismic parthood, and to identify the implications that this has for those who want to draw on this literature when making metaphysical or mereological arguments.

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“…Nothing of substance turns on these assumptions. (But see Walters (2019) and Goodman (MS) for recent defences of anti-symmetry. )…”

Section: Parthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pregnancy, Parthood and Proper Overlap: A Critique of Kingma

Geddes

2022

The Philosophical Quarterly

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“…(Note that Simons favours a non-extensional mereology.) Similarly, Walters (2017) argues that symmetric parthood is not really a proper parthood relation.…”

Section: A Neutral Basismentioning

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On Cotnoir’s two notions of proper parthood

Carrara

Smid

2022

Philos Stud

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A.J. Cotnoir has argued that we should distinguish between two notions of proper parthood: outstripped part and non-identical part. Outstripped parthood is an asymmetric relation, but non-identical parthood is not. We argue, first, that the intuitions Cotnoir uses to motivate these notions do not always give the right verdict; and, second, that systematic reasons for distinguishing these two notions of parthood have further counter-intuitive consequences. This means the distinction between two notions of proper parthood currently lacks adequate motivation.

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“…But, first, it is not at all obvious that colocated objects have the same parts. For example, the head of a statue is definitely a part of the statue but, pre-theoretically, it would not count as part of the marble (see [1, p. 81], [48] and [50] inter alia). Second, this response makes the argument for coincidence circular.…”

Section: No Interpenetration As An Anti-colocation Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

Mind the Gap

Smid

2021

J Philos Logic

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In debates about the metaphysics of material objects examples of colocated objects are commonly taken to be examples of coincidence too. But the argument that colocation is best understood as involving coincidence is never spelled out. This paper shows under what conditions colocation entails coincidence and argues that the entailment depends on a principle that actually rules out certain forms of colocation. This undermines the argument from colocation to coincidence.

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Are The Statue and The Clay Mutual Parts?

Cited by 15 publications

References 39 publications

Pregnancy, Parthood and Proper Overlap: A Critique of Kingma

Pregnancy, Parthood and Proper Overlap: A Critique of Kingma

On Cotnoir’s two notions of proper parthood

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