Mereology and the Sciences [electronic resource] : Parts and Wholes in the Contemporary Scientific Context / edited by Claudio Calosi, Pierluigi Graziani.

Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Parts, Wholes and Contemporary Sciences; C. Calosi and P. Graziani -- Part I. Physics -- Introduction to Part I: Mereology and Physics -- Building Enduring Objects out of Spacetime; C. Gilmore -- Relativistic Parts and Places: a Note on Corner Slices and Shrinking Chairs; Y. Balashov -- Parthood and Composition in Quantum Mechanics; C. Calosi and G. Tarozzi -- Continuity of motion in Whitehead's Geometrical Space; V. Fano and P. Graziani -- Part II. Mathematics -- Introduction to Part II: Mereology and Mathematics -- Multi-valued Logic for a Point Free Foundation of Geometry; C. Coppola and G. Gerla -- The Relations of Supremum and Mereological Sum in Partially Ordered Sets; R. Gruszyński and A. Pietruszczak -- Natural Mereology and Classical Mereology; P. Hovda -- Part III. Natural Sciences -- Introduction to Part III: Mereology and Natural Science -- Crisp islands in vague seas. Cases of determinate parthood relations in biological objects; L. Jansen, S. Schulz -- Developing the Mereology of Chemistry; J. P. Llored and R. Harrè -- Part IV. Computer Sciences and Engineering -- Introduction to Part IV: Mereology, Computer Sciences and Engineering -- Mereology in Engineering and Computer Sciences; L. Polkowski -- Discrete Mereotopology; A. Galton -- A Role for Mereology in Domain Science and Engineering; D. Bjørner.