naa a22 4500 510789579 CHVBK 20180411083315.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11406-013-9421-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11406-013-9421-x Campdelacreu Marta Logic, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain aut Do We Need Two Notions of Constitution? [Elektronische Daten] [Marta Campdelacreu] Traditionally, constitutionalists have offered just one notion of constitution to analyse the relation that an object, such as a statue or a chain, bears to the object/s from which it is made: let us say, a piece of marble in the first case or a piece of metal in the second. Robert Wilson proposes to differentiate two notions of constitution and, in this way, to offer constitutionalists a more varied range of metaphysical tools. To justify the introduction of the difference, he presents several phenomena and problems, the explanation of which would justify the distinction he makes. In this paper I argue that Wilson's proposal would not increase the explanatory power of a theory of constitution as it has traditionally been understood, only its complexity. Increasing the complexity without increasing the explanatory power of a theory, I defend, goes against one, at least prima facie, basic theoretical virtue: parsimony. In my argumentation I crucially use, for the case of Wilson's first three arguments, the existence of principles of existence−persistence, which constitutionalists, Wilson among them, usually accept. In arguing against Wilson's fourth argument I use a slightly modified version of Lynne Rudder Baker's theory of constitution. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Material object nationallicence Constitution nationallicence Principles of existence−persistence nationallicence Parsimony nationallicence Robert Wilson nationallicence Lynne Rudder Baker nationallicence Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 503-519 0048-3893 41:2<503 2013 41 11406 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9421-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-013-9421-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Campdelacreu Marta Logic, History and Philosophy of Science Department, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophia Springer Netherlands 41/2(2013-06-01), 503-519 0048-3893 41:2<503 2013 41 11406 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer