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CfP special issue of Synthese on "Mereology & Identity", Deadline: 31 May 2018

Call for Papers

We invite submissions of original papers for a special issue of *Synthese*,
whose title is ?Mereology and Identity? (https://sites.google.com/
view/mereology-and-identity)

The special issue will focus on the relation among parthood, composition
and identity and will be edited by Massimiliano Carrara (University of
Padua) and Giorgio Lando (University of L?Aquila).
Scientific Aims

The contemporary debate on mereology is largely hinged on the notion of
identity. Indeed, classical mereology dictates that complex entities are
identical if and only if they have the same proper parts. On the other
hand, many scholars who doubt the adequacy of classical mereology point to
real or fictional cases in which different wholes would have the same
proper parts.

The upholders of the so-called doctrine of Composition as Identity think
that identity, or a relation analogous to identity, also connects a whole
with its parts. By contrast, the opponents of this doctrine retort that
composition fails to respect some pivotal principles that hold for standard
identity, such as the Indiscerniblity of Identicals, co-referentiality or
transitivity. Finally, in the debate about Composition as Identity, the
so-called Sider-Yi Collapse seems to show that some roles sometimes
attributed to identity in this debate are incompatible with the standard
characterization of plural identity.

Aim of the issue is to give innovative solutions to the following open
problems concerning mereology and identity. We welcome submission on any of
the following topics:

a) Is there any inferential or evidential connection between Composition as
Identity and mereological principles?

b) Does the debate between monism and dualism in the theory of constitution
really concern mereology? Is dualism compatible or incompatible with
mereological extensionalism?

c) Is it possible and interesting to combine mereological extensionalism
and/or Composition as Identity with non-standard doctrines of identity,
such as relative identity or milder forms of pluralism about identity?

d) What does the Yi/Sider Collapse show about the application of plural
logic to mereology?

e) How do the appeals to the Indiscernibility of Identicals in the debate
about Composition as Identity differ from the appeals to the
Indiscernibility of Identicals in the debate about the theory of
constitution?

f) Is Composition as Identity compatible with non-standard mereologies, or
with pluralist theories of parthood?

g) According to Composition as Identity the Principle of Indiscernibility
of Identicals can be extended to composition, by resorting to broadly
Fregean relativizations of cardinality ascriptions. How is this
relativization achieved?
Invited Authors

The following scholars have accepted our invitation to submit a paper for
the special issue:

Einar Bohn (University of Agder)

Phillip Bricker (University of Massachusetts)

Claudio Calosi (Université de Neuchâtel)

Ilaria Canavotto (University of Amsterdam) & Alessandro Giordani (Catholic
University of Milan)

Aaron Cotnoir (University of St. Andrews)

Paul Hovda (Reed College)

Shieva Kleinschmidt (University of Southern California)

Kris McDaniel (Syracuse University)

Massimo Mugnai (Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa)

Jeroen Smid (Lund University)

Joshua Spencer (University of Wisconsin)

Achille Varzi (Columbia University)

Megan Wallace (University of Kentucky)

Byeong-Uk Yi (University of Toronto)


*Practical Informations*

The deadline for the submission of the papers is *May 31st 2018*. The
papers should be prepared for blind review. The paper should be submitted
through Synthese editorial manager. Here
<https://philevents.org/event/fileDownload/38542?fileId=4422> you can find
some instructions.

For any further informations, contacts massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it or
giorgio.lando@univaq.it

or visit the CFP web page:

https://sites.google.com/view/mereology-and-identity
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