Mathematical Holism

© Peter H. Roosen-Runge, 1999-2003.

Table of Contents

1. Preface
2. States and Parts
• How Many Parts?
• Existence: Coming Into and Going Out Of
• Atoms and Bits
3. Objects in Space
4. States as Individuals: a Nominalist Account
5. The Whole as the Sum of Its Parts
6. Time
• Time Travel
• Merlin objects
7. States of Affairs and Configurations
8. Configurations and Arrangements
9. Cambridge Change
10. Are there "disjunctive facts"?
11. Relational Regress
12. Predication
13. Truth as a Property
14. Worlds within Worlds
• Sub-Worlds
• A Metaphysical Conjecture
• Propositions in Sub-worlds
• Parallel Universes
15. States, Parts & Information
16. Definitions
17. References