Volume 42, Issue 2, Fall/Winter 2013
Michael Fitzpatrick
Pages 254-282
The Metaphysics of Evolution: Against Ted Sider’s “Against Parthood”
This article explores process mereology, the theory of part-whole relations. I compare and contrast the mereology of Theodore Sider with that of Alfred North Whitehead, broadly favoring the latter’s approach for allowing us to take seriously an evolutionary structure in metaphysics.