This talk occurred on May 5, 2006 at the Illinois Institute of Technology
(IIT). This talk is a section of
an upcoming article of mine about Mereological Nihilism
and Quantum Atomism.
The article is going to be published later this year in the journal,
Axiomathes.
This section of the article that was
presented at IIT is about
problems with what are called Democritean atoms: truly fundamental particles that some
physicists and philosophers believe can have a spatial size (for example, some
theorists maintain that a Planck cell or
Planck length are like this--they have no parts whatsoever but they also somehow
have a magnitude or volume--and thus they are what are called Democritean atoms).
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Specifically,
"A New Argument Against Extended Philosophical Atoms" is concerned with only the following: showing that if the basic building
blocks of reality (1) have a size (a spatial volume and magnitude), (2) have no
mind-independent proper parts whatsoever, then these atoms are impossible
and cannot exist.
If you would like to read this part of the
article that was presented at IIT, click here:
A New Argument Against Extended Philosophical Atoms.
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