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Against mereological nihilism (2013)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2013). Against mereological nihilism. Synthese, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-013-0343-8

I argue that mereological nihilism fails because it cannot answer (what I describe as) the special arrangement question: when is it true that the xs (the mereological simples) are arranged F-wise? I suggest that the answers given in the literature fa... Read More about Against mereological nihilism.

Dubious by nature (2013)
Journal Article
Tallant, J. (2013). Dubious by nature. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.2013.812372

There is a charge sometimes made in metaphysics that particular commitments are ‘hypothetical’, ‘dubious’ or ‘suspicious’. There have been two analyses given of what this consists in—due to Crisp (2007) and Cameron (2011). The aim of this paper is to... Read More about Dubious by nature.