In the paper I attempt to describe a metaphysically neutral minimal mereology, SPO (for supplementary pre-ordering). I explore some of the formal features of this system, show that it has axiomatic bases with both “part” and “overlap” as primitives, and relate it to existing literature on the topic.
Until September 2016 I am a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College and an Associate Professor in the Oxford Philosophy Faculty. From then on, I'll be a Senior Adviser at the New Zealand Ministry of Transport.
My intellectual interests are mainly in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and ethics, and of course transport policy.
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