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Casati, Roberto; Varzi, Achille C.

 
9780262517072: Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation
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ISBN 10: 0262517078 ISBN 13: 9780262517072
Editorial: MIT Press, 2003

Sinopsis

Thinking about space is thinking about spatial things. The table is on the carpet; hence the carpet is under the table. The vase is in the box; hence the box is not in the vase. But what does it mean for an object to be somewhere? How are objects tied to the space they occupy? In this book Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation. Their starting point is an analysis of the interplay between mereology (the study of part/whole relations), topology (the study of spatial continuity and compactness), and the theory of spatial location proper. This leads to a unified framework for spatial representation understood quite broadly as a theory of the representation of spatial entities. The framework is then tested against some classical metaphysical questions such as: Are parts essential to their wholes? Is spatial co-location a sufficient criterion of identity? What (if anything) distinguishes material objects from events and other spatial entities? The concluding chapters deal with applications to topics as diverse as the logical analysis of movement and the semantics of maps.

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Acerca del autor

Roberto Casati is the Director of the Jean Nicod Institute and Professor at EHESS in Paris. He is the coauthor of Holes and Other Superficialities and Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation, both published by the MIT Press.

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Editorial
MIT Press
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0262517078
ISBN 13 
9780262517072
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
Contacto del fabricante
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