'Approaches to Parts and Wholes in Semantics',

Advanced Course, ESSLLI 26, 2025, Bochum, July 5-August 8, 2025

Handout Course Syllabus

Session 1:

Overview: three different approaches to part-whole structure: extensional mereology, hylomorphism and mereotopology, the priority of the whole

Handout 1

Session 2: Extensional mereology: motivations, difficulties, and limits

Handout 2

Session 3: Hylomorphism, mereotopology, and the mass-count distinction

Handout 3

Session 4: The priority of the whole 1: ordinary objects and predicates of completion

Handout 4

Session 5: The priority of the whole 2: expressions of replacement

Handout 5