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Pre-Read session on Priest (2014). One, OUP. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688258.001.0001

Pre-Read session on Jones, N. “How to unify” Ergo 5, 2018 https://doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0005.031

Abstract: It is commonplace to think that composition is explained by relations—what I call the relational idea. Many argue that taking this seriously requires rejecting the idea that classical mereology—the most well-known formal theory of parthood—tells us anything important about the nature of composites. In this paper, I have two aims. First, I want to…

Pre-Read Session: Correia, F., & Skiles, A. (2021). Essence, Modality, and Identity. Mind, 131 (524), 1279鈥�1302.

Invited Speaker: Correia (in-person) “From Identity to Metaphysical Necessity: A Logical Study” ABSTRACT: In 鈥淓ssence, Modality, and Identity鈥� (2022), Alex Skiles and I put forward an account of metaphysical necessity in terms of identity. In this talk, I address the question of which logic of metaphysical necessity one can hope to get given the account.

WIP Session: Henrique Formigoni Morais. Title: Is mereology logic? Abstract: Some philosophers have suggested that mereology is, in some sense, part of logic broadly understood. The aim of this talk is to briefly examine this idea, both in meaning and tenability. I distinguish a number of 鈥渕ereologicist鈥� hypotheses and how they might be related. I…