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2. The Special Composition Question

From the book Material Beings

  • Peter van Inwagen
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713033-003
© 2017 Cornell University Press, Ithaca
From the book
Material Beings
Material Beings

Chapters in this book (24)

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Special Composition Question
3. Contact, a Representative Answer to the Special Composition Question
4. The General Composition Question
5. What We Shall Not Presuppose
6. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Some Type of Physical Bonding Occurs
7. Answers to the Special Composition Question According to Which Composition Occurs When Combinations of Various Types of Physical Bonding Occur
8. Extreme Answers to the Special Composition Question: Nihilism and Universalism
9. The Proposed Answer
10. Why the Proposed Answer to the Special Composition Question, Radical Though It Is, Does Not Contradict Our Ordinary Beliefs
11. The Topic of the Previous Section Continued: Paraphrase
12. Unity and Thinking
13. Artifacts
14. The Identities of Material Objects
15. Brain Transplants
16. Two Problerns about Personal Identity: Memory and Commissurotomy
17. The Problem of the Many and the Vagueness of Composition
18. The Vagueness of Identity
19. The Vagueness of Existence
Notes
Index
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