What is an Extended Simple Region?

Goodsell, Zachary; Duncan, Michael; Miller, Kristie

doi:10.1111/phpr.12623

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“…Furthermore, whenever these axioms seem to do substantive metaphysical work, I will simply flag that out explicitly. 20 See e.g. Casati and Varzi [11], Parsons [36], Varzi [49], and Saucedo [41].…”

Section: Locationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Baron and LeBihan [7] is not completely explicit, but it makes use of metric-spaces. Relatedly, Goodsell et al [20] use a somewhat similar notion of extension to define an explicitly extrinsic notion of extended simple region. Note that my proposed definition is intrinsic instead.…”

Section: On "Being Less Extended Than"mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A comparison between these notions of metric-spaces notions of extension will have to wait for another occasion. Note that neither Baron and LeBihan [7] nor Goodsell et al [20] even mention measure theory.…”

Section: On "Being Less Extended Than"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extended Simples, Unextended Complexes

Calosi

2022

J Philos Logic

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Both extended simples and unextended complexes have been extensively discussed and widely used in metaphysics and philosophy of physics. However, the characterizations of such notions are not entirely satisfactory inasmuch as they rely on a mereological notion of extension that is too simplistic. According to such a mereological notion, being extended boils down to having a mereologically complex exact location. In this paper, I make a detailed plea to supplement this notion of extension with a different one that is phrased in terms of measure theory. This proposal has significant philosophical payoffs. I provide new characterizations of both extended simples and unextended complexes, that help re-evaluating the question of whether such entities are metaphysically possible. Finally, I advance several suggestions as to how different notions of extension relate, first, to one another and, second, to mereological structure.

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Section: Locationmentioning

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Section: On "Being Less Extended Than"mentioning

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Extended Simples, Unextended Complexes

Calosi

2022

J Philos Logic

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Somewhere Together: Location, Parsimony and Multilocation

Loss¹

2021

Erkenn

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Most of the theories of location on the market appear to be ideologically parsimonious at least in the sense that they take as primitive just one locative notion and define all the other locative notions in terms of it. Recently, however, the possibility of some exotic metaphysical scenarios involving gunky mixtures and extended simple regions of space has been argued to pose a significant threat to parsimonious theories of locations. The aim of this paper is to show that a theory taking as primitive a notion of plural pervasive location and allowing for irreducibly plural locative facts can account for all the putatively problematic scenarios for parsimonious theories of location. Furthermore, I will also argue that the notion of plural pervasive location is compatible with the possibility of multilocation.

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Against the Humean Argument for Extended Simples

Lin

2022

Australasian Journal of Philosophy

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What is an Extended Simple Region?

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Extended Simples, Unextended Complexes

Extended Simples, Unextended Complexes

Somewhere Together: Location, Parsimony and Multilocation

Against the Humean Argument for Extended Simples

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