Mereological Essentialism - Defenders

Defenders

The following philosophers have thought mereological essentialism to be true; before the 20th century, Peter Abelard and Gottfried Leibniz. In the 20th century, we have G.E. Moore, Roderick Chisholm and James Van Cleve. The last two philosophers consider objects as enduring. Michael Jubien and Mark Heller, writing from the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century, defend mereological essentialism for perduring objects.