Alexander Pruss's Blog

The view that all objects are either living or simple appears to be a consequence of van Inwagen’s answer to the special composition questio...

If we think parts are explanatorily prior to wholes, then gunky objects—objects which have parts but no smallest parts—involve a vicious exp...

An object is gunky provided that all of its parts have proper parts. Gunk is usually considered a really outré possibility. I want to offer ...

Gunk is subdivisible into smaller parts, and these are subdivisible into yet smaller parts, and this happens ad infinitum , with no smal...