Claudio Calosi is currently a post-doc at University of Urbino. He has been Visiting Research Scholar at University of Pittsburgh, University of California at Irvine and New York University. His main research interests are philosophy of science and analytic metaphysics and he has published extensively on both in journals such as Synthese, Foundations of Physics, Topoi to mention a few.

Pierluigi Graziani received his Ph.D from University of Rome La Sapienza and is currently a post-doc at University of Urbino. His works spans from mathematical logic, especially proof theory, to history and philosophy of mathematics. He has been editor of different volumes and published in different distinguished journals.

First thorough attempt to investigate the relation and possible applications of an important area of ontology, metaphysics and logic, i.e. mereology and different scientific disciplines

Offers a self-contained and accessible introduction to a relatively new subject in the metaphysics and the foundations of science while promoting an inter-disciplinary approach

Presents a brief introduction to each section that serves as an overview of single applications of mereological theories to specific sciences

Includes supplementary material: [...]

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. Gruszy¿ski 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.