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SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)
DESCRIPTION:Title: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments \nAbstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility\, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets are parts of sets\, instead following Lewis (1991\, 1993) in taking sets and classes more generally to have only their subclasses as parts\, with singletons being mereologically atomic. Against this background\, Caplan et. al (2010) attempt to maintain that sets have their members as parts\, in the framework of Fine’s (1999\, 2010) theory of rigid embodiments. Their view\, however\, is committed to a rejection of classical mereology as it very directly entails failures of the principle of strong supplementation. In this talk I will attempt to motivate a (work-in-progress) view of the mereology of sets based on Fine’s theory of rigid embodiments in which: (i) the members of sets are parts of sets; and (ii) no principle of classical mereology is violated. The resulting view is that sets just are fusions of rigid embodiments sharing the same material parts. Throughout the talk I will also consider how this theory may help justify some of the restrictions on set construction from standard set theory.
URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-seminar-13/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ô¹Ï\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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SUMMARY:Metaphysics Seminar Anna-Sofia Maurin (University of Gothenburg)
DESCRIPTION:Flatworldism: A (Reluctant) Defense \nFlatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality lacks a certain kind of – hierarchical – structure. Prima facie what this means is that reality’s inhabitants are not sub-dividable into the more and less fundamental such that what is more fundamental (at least sometimes) makes what is less fundamental exist and be the way it is. Flatworldism is not a view I hold. In general\, I think a view according to which reality is hierarchically structured is preferable to one according to which it is not. Still\, I think Flatworldism has received an unfair hearing in recent literature. In this paper I therefore play devil’s advocate and defend Flatworldism against some of the criticisms that have been raised against it. My long game is a defense of the hierarchical—grounding—conception of reality. My hope is that\, in identifying the strongest most charitable version of Flatworldism\, I will be able to more clearly formulate and then more persuasively argue for its opposite.
URL:/philevents/event/metaphysics-seminar-14/
LOCATION:A virtual seminar by Zoom\, The University\, 58³Ô¹Ï\, KY16 9L\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Metaphysics and Logic group
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