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Saving the Ship

European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 13 (2):43-54 (2017)

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Two Notes on Composition.John Biro - 2022 - Metaphysica 23 (2):445-454.details If, as some philosophers maintain, there are no composites, we do not have to ask whether, as others hold, composition is identity. Here I argue that both groups are wrong: there are composites, and composition is not identity. I examine one argument for excluding composites from our ontology, based on their alleged causal redundancy. I give reason to think that composites are ineliminable in causal explanations of macroscopic effects. I go on to argue that the relation between composites and their (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Rearranging the Furniture.John Biro - 2020 - Philosophia 48 (1):77-81.details According to Peter van Inwagen, there are, from the point of view of serious metaphysics, no composites, only simples. Saying that we have built a ship is a misleading way of saying that we have rearranged some simples ship- wise. However, the notion of rearranging simples is problematic, and van Inwagen’s resort to “honorary simples” does not make it less so. Simples can be rearranged only by way of rearranging these, making talk of them not merely a convenient facon de (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Leading a Double Life: Statues and Pieces of Clay.John Biro - 2020 - Metaphysica 21 (2):273-277.details Some philosophers think that two distinct things can occupy exactly the same region of space, as with a statue and a piece of clay. Others think that the statue and the piece of clay are identical, but not necessarily so. I argue that Alan Gibbard’s well-known story of Goliath and Lumpl does not support either of these claims. Not the first, as there is independent reason to think that it cannot be true. Not the second, because there is no need (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Ordinary objects.Daniel Z. Korman - 2011 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.details An encyclopedia entry which covers various revisionary conceptions of which macroscopic objects there are, and the puzzles and arguments that motivate these conceptions: sorites arguments, the argument from vagueness, the puzzles of material constitution, arguments against indeterminate identity, arguments from arbitrariness, debunking arguments, the overdetermination argument, and the problem of the many. Download Export citation Bookmark 41 citations

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