A Teleological Answer to the Special Composition Question

Autor: Bowers, Jason
Zdroj: Dialectica; March 2019, Vol. 73 Issue: 1-2 p231-246, 16p
Abstrakt: Every contemporary answer to van Inwagen's Special Composition Question faces counterexamples. I defend a teleological answer that avoids these counterexamples. The Teleological Answer claims that a collection of materials composes something exactly when those materials are arranged in order to perform some proper function. After demonstrating this account's immunity to its competitors' counterexamples, I respond to objections.
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