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Title: Partial identity and mereotopology Abstract: How should we think about the ways in which identity and parthood interact? One important line of thought comes from the joint influence of the two Davids: Armstrong and Lewis. The underlying idea is that mereological overlap is a kind of identity – namely, partial identity. The aim of…

Title: Relevance in the Logic of Imagination Abstract: Reality-oriented mental simulation is a kind of imagination. The working assumption is that, when trying to determine whether a match would light if struck, one initially imagines striking the match and, together with relevant beliefs imported into the imaginative scenario, mentally simulates what would happen. But what…

Title: Composition as Identity defeats an Ethical Objection to Four-Dimensionalism Abstract: Johnston, Olson, and Taylor have argued against four-dimensionalism on the grounds that it commits us to the existence of personites, which are proper temporal parts of four-dimensional persons. They argue that the existence of personites makes many of our moral beliefs and practices untenable,…