This paper develops co-ordinated multiple-domain supervenience relations to model determination and dependence relations between complex entities and their constituents by appealing to R-related pairs and by making use of associated isomorphisms. Supervenience relations are devised for order-sensitive and repetition-sensitive mereologies, for mereological systems that make room for many-many composition relations, as well as for hierarchical mereologies that incorporate compositional and hylomorphic structure. Finally, mappings are provided for theories that consider wholes to be prior to their parts.

Authors’ Biography

Ralf M. Bader is a Fellow of Merton College and a CUF Lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on metaphysics, ethics, Kant scholarship and political philosophy. He was educated at Oxford and St Andrews and was previously a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at NYU.

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