Titlebook: Macroscopic Metaphysics; Middle-Sized Objects Paul Needham Book 2017 Springer International Publishing AG 2017 Classical mereology.Continua

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Constitution,er and a time, allowing for the typically changing constitution of individuals over time. The fact that times are intervals is accommodated and connections with the occupies relation, in terms of which coincidence is defined, are explored. Time-dependent analogues of the mereological relations are d

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,The Ancients’ Ideas of Substance,ceptions and therefore have some interest as precursors of modern views as well as being of conceptual interest in their own right. Aristotle’s views of the matter were based on the fundamental tenet that a homogeneous quantity comprises a single substance. Combined with the thesis of the impossibil

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The Nature of Matter,he realisation that a substance like water is not necessarily liquid, as Aristotle thought, but the same substance might be solid or gas too. This chapter reviews just how surprisingly tenacious the older view was, noting that even Lavoiser had difficulty abandoning it completely although he prepare

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Longish Processes,processes, any idea of introducing occurrents on the basis of a distinction between intrinsic and Cambridge changes in continuants is abandoned. The understanding of occurrents as temporally extended processes—causings rather than relata of a dyadic causal relation—based on the analysis of processes

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e scholars from certain quarters of medieval studies have begun to borrow heavily from postcolonial studies, medievalists [and medieval studies] have yet to make a significant impact on the methods, historical purview, and theoretical lexicon of postcolonialism” (1197). This observation, and a desir

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Paul Needhamnterplay, and the creative potential and hybridity that Gilroy sees as definitive of the black Atlantic began with precolonial English characterizations of Africa, blacks, and the landscapes they occupied, and not with the advent of the Middle Passage, as Gilroy argues. The contemporary Anglophone C