Wholes, Sums and Unities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781402016608)

According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.e. relations between the parts of a whole), and to neglect the vertical dimension (i.e. relations between the whole itself and its parts). In Wholes, Sums and Unities, Meirav formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as Unities', and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles (such as that of Tibbles the cat). More generally he suggests that conceiving wholes as Unities offers us a new way of understanding the world in non-reductive terms.

Author: A. Meirav
ISBN-10: 1402016603
ISBN-13: 9781402016608
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2003
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2004 pg. 6