• Fascinating subject: the metaphysics of things around us
• Combines a critical survey of the history of the subject with the author's own original views

Readership: Advanced students and scholars of metaphysics.

Kathrin Koslicki, University of Colorado, Boulder

"Philosophers interested in mereological issues will profit from Koslicki's book." - Paul Hovda, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

1. Standard Mereology
Introduction
1: The Standard Conception of Composition
2: Ordinary Material Objects as Mereological Sums
3: Composition as Non-Identity
2. A Contemporary Structure-based Mereology
4: A Different Kind of Whole
3. Ancient Structure-Based Mereologies
5: The Role of Structure in Plato's Mereological Writings
6: Aristotle's Refinements of Plato's Theory
4. An Alternative Structure-Based Theory
7: Objects as Structured Wholes
8: In Defense of Kinds
9: Structure
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index