# Mereological Nihilism
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In philosophy, mereological nihilism (also called compositional nihilism) is the metaphysical thesis that there are no objects with proper parts. Equivalently, mereological nihilism says that mereological simples, or objects without any proper parts, are the only material objects that exist. mereological nihilism is distinct from ordinary nihilism insofar as ordinary nihilism typically focuses on the nonexistence of common metaphysical assumptions such as ethical truths and objective meaning, rather than the nonexistence of composite objects.
Question of the Week #917: Mereological Nihilism to the Rescue?
https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/mereological-nihilism-to-the-rescue
CC224: Do We Ever Experience Anything Begin to Exist? The Mereological Nihilism Objection to the KCA
There's a common objection to the Kalam Cosmological Argument that goes something like this: we never actually experience anything beginning to exist, we only ever experience new arrangements of pre-existing material. Hence, since we don't experience things really beginning to exist, the Kalam's ca…
50 - Jonathan Schaffer: Monism, Grounding, and The Fundamental Level of Reality
Jonathan Schaffer is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is an acclaimed metaphysician with a unique mind and approach to philosophy (and who has exquisite taste in epigraphs). Jonathan is best known for his work on monism, in which he contends that t…
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I recently asked for your questions, and I posted my responses on YouTube here. We touch on compatibilism, NDEs, aliens, euthanasia, abortion, death anxiety as an atheist, idealism, incest, Islam, Mormonism, subjectivism, psychophysical harmony, and more. (For those listening via podcast, I left th…
51 - Conversation with Luke Roelofs, Author of Combining Minds: How to Think About Composite Subjectivity
I’m joined by philosopher Luke Roelofs to discuss the combination problem for panpsychism, split brain cases, vagueness arguments, illusionism, mental privacy, the general and special composition question, mereological nihilism and universalism, and many other topics related to consciousness and co…
s02e06 Choices
In this episode of simples aranged podcast-wise, we consider the things that we choose, the things that we didn't, and all the ways it probably doesn't matter.
Spoiler warning. This one has ennui.
Recorded Mid March, 2021.
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