Weak Location

Abstract

Recently, many philosophers have been interested in using locative relations to clarify and pursue debates in the metaphysics of material objects. Most begin with the relation of exact location. But what if we begin instead with the relation known as weak location -the relation an object x bears to any region not completely bereft of x? I explore some of the consequences of pursuing this route for issues including coincidence, extended simples, and endurance, with an eye to evaluating the prospects for taking weak location as our fundamental locative relation.

Mereological Models of Spacetime Emergence

“…Here's one: an unextended region does not have any proper subregions. This characterisation is drawn from Eagle's (2019) definition of what it is to be extended: ‘a region is mereologically extended iff it has a proper subregion’ (167). This type of characterization has been scrutinized in relation to what has been raised as the geometric correspondence principle : any spatially extended object has parts that correspond to parts of the region that it occupies (see Braddon‐Mitchell & Miller, 2006; Simons, 2004).…”