Description: Over the last 15 years the epistemology of disagreement has been one of the most blooming research interests in epistemology. A special case of disagreement is logical disagreement, i.e. disputes regarding the validity of certain inference rules, or the status of fundamental logical principles. This Arch茅 workshop is dedicated to the topic聽Logical Disagreement聽and related…
Abstract: Meinong’s object theory is thought by many to be inconsistent聽(or even trivial). Indeed, its most straightforward formalisation in聽second-order logic is. However, contemporary logicians have developed聽more subtle formalisations of Meinong’s ideas, the so-called聽neo-Meinongian logics, that are provably consistent. In this talk, I聽review two of the main approachs, Nuclear Meinongianism and Dual Copula聽Meinongianism, and I develop…
Title: On Numbers as Kinds Abstract: I discuss the neo-aristotelian ontology presented in Lowe (2006), drawing particular attention at Lowe鈥檚 notions of objects and pluralities, and his conception of natural numbers as universals. I argue that Lowe鈥檚 treatment of numbers and pluralities is useful to those who believe that non-individual entities exist and can be…
Abstract: Mereological atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed of atomic parts. Typically, this thesis is characterized by an axiom stating, more simply, that everything has atomic parts. The present paper argues that the success of the standard characterization crucially depends both on how the notion of composition is related to the notion…
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