The Puzzles of Material Constitution
The Puzzles of Material Constitution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4844093 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa A Paul (0000-0002-2280-7695, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 579-590 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00302.x |
| OpenAlex | W1524285107 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 39 |
Monists about material constitution typically argue that when Statue is materially constituted by Clay, Statue is just Clay. Pluralists about material constitution deny that constitution is identity: Statue is not just Clay. When Clay materially constitutes Statue, Clay is not identical to Statue. I discuss three familiar puzzles involving grounding, overdetermination and conceptual issues, and develop three new puzzles stemming from the connection between mereological composition and material constitution: a mereological puzzle, an asymmetry puzzle, and a structural puzzle
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Constitution · Epistemology · Mereology · Political science · Statue · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Philosophy, Science, and History
Divisions of the physical world
Metaphysical Explanation by Constraint
Mereological Nihilism and Material Constitution
Fission, Fusion, and Survival Through Parts
In defense of disjointism
Plenitude, Coincidence, and Humility
Ethical Reductionism
Grounding, mental causation, and overdetermination
What Grounds What Grounds What
Strange Parts
Varieties of plenitude
Counterparts
Parts of classes
Objects and Persons
Sameness and Substance Renewed
Physical Realization
Things and Their Parts
Spatio-Temporal Coincidence and the Grounding Problem
Contingent identity
The Non-Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter
Composition as a Fiction
Why Constitution is Not Identity
The ontology of physical objects
Coincidence under a Sortal
The Kinds of Things
Theories of Masses and Problems of Constitution
Re-Identifying Matter
Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place
Realization, Micro‐Realization, and Coincidence
Parts and Wholes
Material Coincidence and the Indiscernibility Problem
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |