Bennett on Parts Twice Over

Philosophia 41 (3):757-761 (2013)
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Abstract

In this paper I outline the main features of Karen Bennett’s (Australasian Journal of Philosophy 1–21, 2011) non-classical mereology, and identify its methodological costs. I argue that Bennett’s mereology cannot account for the composition of structural universals because it cannot explain the mereological difference between isomeric universals, such as being butane and being isobutane. I consider responses, which come at costs to the view.

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A. R. J. Fisher
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Mereology.Achille C. Varzi - 2016 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Location and Mereology.Cody Gilmore - 2013 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Structural universals.A. R. J. Fisher - 2018 - Philosophy Compass 13 (10):e12518.

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Universals and scientific realism.David Malet Armstrong - 1978 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Against structural universals.David K. Lewis - 1986 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 64 (1):25 – 46.
Ontology and ideology.W. V. O. Quine - 1951 - Philosophical Studies 2 (1):11 - 15.
Having a Part Twice Over.Karen Bennett - 2013 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (1):83 - 103.

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