Hi. My name is Meg Wallace. I am a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Oberlin College. I recently received my PhD in Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

In my dissertation, Composition is Identity, I defend the view that the relation between the parts of an object and the whole object is the identity relation--i.e., that parts are identical to their whole. There are many arguments against such a view, none of which (I argue) are successful if one adopts a plural language and what I call 'plural counting'. Moreover, Composition is Identity, together with a liberal notion of parthood, provides an elegant solution to classic puzzles of material constitution. A link to my dissertation, broken down chapter by chapter, can be found below.