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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.

Powers are often assumed to be atomic; and yet what they can do--and what can happen to them--is complex. But if powers are simple, how can they have complex manifestations? Can powers have parts? According to which rules of composition do powers compose into powers? Given the centrality of powers in current scientific as well as philosophical thought, recognizing and understanding the ontological differences between atomic and mereologically complex powers is important, for both philosophy and science. The first section of this book explores how powers divide; the second section how powers compose. The final section showcases some specific study cases in the domains of quantum mechanics and psychology.

Powers, Parts and Wholes will be of interest to professional philosophers and graduate students working in metaphysics, philosophy of science and logic.


About the Author:

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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781032288567
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Essays on the Mereology of Powers
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1032288566
  • Publisher Date: 18 Aug 2023
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 571 gr


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