Wholes, Sums and Unities by A Meirav
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.-
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Philosophical Implications of Plant Cognition
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Ethics, Governance, and Policies in Artificial Intelligence
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Masters, Slaves and Philosophers
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Thinking About Oneself
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Through the Scope of Life
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Epistemic Thought Experiments and Intuitions
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On the Epistemology of Data Science
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The Concept of Reduction
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The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals
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Thick (Concepts of) Autonomy
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Towards Reunion in Ethics
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Restless Reason and Other Variations on Kantian Themes
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Thought-Contents
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Thomas Reid: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Anatomy of the Self
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Knowledge and Reality
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Concepts of Meaning
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Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Categories, Consciousness, and Reasoning
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Dependencies, Connections, and Other Relations
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Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom
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Cooperation
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Cognition, Agency and Rationality
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Philosophy, Psychology, and Psychologism
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John Stuart Mill and the Ethic of Human Growth
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The Importance of Time
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Issues in Theoretical Diversity
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On the Cognitive, Ethical, and Scientific Dimensions of Artificial Intelligence
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The Ethics of Medical Data Donation
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The Emotions
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Human Action, Deliberation and Causation
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Moralities
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Psychology and Ontology in Plato
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How Ficta Follow Fiction
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The Epistemology of Conversation
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Discourse, Interaction and Communication
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Success in Referential Communication
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Emotion in Aesthetics
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A Hundred Years of English Philosophy
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Applied Ethics in a Troubled World
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| ISBN 13 | 9789048164424 |
| ISBN 10 | 9048164427 |
| Title | Wholes, Sums and Unities |
| Author | A Meirav |
| Series | Philosophical Studies Series |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Year published | 2010-10-28 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
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