Mereology and Location

290 Pages·2014·1.35 MB·English

by  Shieva Kleinschmidt

MEREOLOGY
& LOCATION
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edited by
SHIEVA KLEINSCHMIDT
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MEREOLOGY AND LOCATION
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Mereology and
Location
edited by

Shieva Kleinschmidt

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Acknowledgements

This volume was inspired by a conference on Mereology, Topology, and
Location, that took place at Rutgers University in October 2006. I am
grateful to the Rutgers Philosophy Department for sponsoring this confer-
ence, and especially to Dean Zimmerman for his help with the conference
and for his subsequent suggestion to create this volume.
I owe a debt to the universities that have supported me during the pro-
duction of this volume—Rutgers University, New York University, and
the University of Southern California—as well as to the members of the
Philosophy departments at these universities.
I am very thankful to the members of Oxford University Press who have
done a signifi cant amount of work on this volume. I am especially grateful
to Peter Momtchiloff for all of his work and for his invaluable guidance and
extraordinary patience. I am also thankful to the anonymous reviewers who
provided us with feedback on the papers.
My greatest debt is to the incredible group of authors who have con-
tributed to this volume and who have been tremendously patient with me
during my fi rst editing attempt. It has been a delight to work with them,
and I’m very excited about the resultant volume.
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