• Metaphysics Seminar Francisca Silva (University of 58³Ô¹Ï)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Title: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: 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…

  • Metaphysics Seminar Anna-Sofia Maurin (University of Gothenburg)

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Flatworldism: A (Reluctant) Defense Flatworldism 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…