Our everyday experiences present us with a wide array of objects: dogs and cats, tables and
chairs, trees and their branches, and so forth. These sorts of ordinary objects may seem …

Universalism is the thesis that composition is unrestricted: for any non‐overlapping objects,
those objects compose something. One of the most influential arguments for universalism is …

Super-substantivalism is the thesis that space is identical to matter; it is currently under
discussion–see Sklar (1977, 221–4), Earman (1989, 115–6) and Schaffer (2009)–in …

If you do not know what “perdure” or “endure” mean then do not worry, you're in good
company. Even among contemporary metaphysicians, there is a great deal of dissent when …

Mereological nominalism is the thesis that properties are identical to fusions of their
instances. Long ignored, this paper argues that it's a plausible ontology of properties. Whilst …

Universalism (the thesis that for any ys, those ys compose a further object) is an answer to
the Special Composition Question. In the literature there are three arguments–what I call the …

Abstract The Argument from Vagueness for Universalism contends that any non-arbitrary
restriction on composition must be vague, but that vague composition leads to unacceptable …

When some objects are the parts of another object, they compose that object and that object
is composite. This article is intended as an introduction to the central questions about …

Unlike many other metaphysical categories, whether there are material objects is (Idealism
aside) uncontroversial. No wonder then that the metaphysics of material objects has become …

Zurvanism was an ancient variant of Zoroastrianism. According to Zurvanism, the great
powers of good and evil, Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu, were the sons of a greater god …