Reminder: “Lugano Philosophy Colloquia (Hybrid)”
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We are pleased to announce that on Tuesday, April 15 at 5.30pm (CET), Carlo Nicolai (King's College London) will give the talk On Non-Wellfounded Instantiation as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Spring 2025 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in Room Multiuso, FTL Building (USI West Campus) and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining online, please write to events.isfi(a)usi.ch.
Here is the abstract of the talk:
Concerns about the expressive limitations of type-theoretic approaches to properties may lead philosophers to favour type-free options, typically formulated in a first-order language. Given the success of standard set theory and the iterative conception, there have been attempts to formulate theories of properties based on ZFC, justified by an iterative picture. Such approaches, although prima facie type-free, ban any form of self-predication/instantiation, which is in some cases desirable for properties, if not for sets. An obvious alternative is to explore theories of properties based on non-wellfounded set theories and the conceptions on which they are based. In the talk I will discuss and develop this alternative.
For more information: https://www.ftl.usi.ch/it/feeds/14907
1 month
Lugano Philosophy Colloquia (Hybrid)
by events.isfi＠usi.ch
We are pleased to announce that on Tuesday, April 15 at 5.30pm (CET), Carlo Nicolai (King's College London) will give the talk On Non-Wellfounded Instantiation as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Spring 2025 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in Room Multiuso, FTL Building (USI West Campus) and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining online, please write to events.isfi(a)usi.ch.
Here is the abstract of the talk:
Concerns about the expressive limitations of type-theoretic approaches to properties may lead philosophers to favour type-free options, typically formulated in a first-order language. Given the success of standard set theory and the iterative conception, there have been attempts to formulate theories of properties based on ZFC, justified by an iterative picture. Such approaches, although prima facie type-free, ban any form of self-predication/instantiation, which is in some cases desirable for properties, if not for sets. An obvious alternative is to explore theories of properties based on non-wellfounded set theories and the conceptions on which they are based. In the talk I will discuss and develop this alternative.
For more information: https://www.ftl.usi.ch/it/feeds/14907
1 month, 1 week
Reminder: "Lugano Philosophy Colloquia"
by events.isfi＠usi.ch
We are pleased to announce that on Friday, April 4 at 5.30pm (CET), Hans Halvorson (Princeton) will give the talk Reduction redux as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Spring 2025 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in Room Multiuso, FTL Building (USI West Campus) and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining online, please write to events.isfi(a)usi.ch.
Here is the abstract of the talk:
To his list of perennial philosophical questions, Kant might have added: can everything be reduced to the microphysical basis? I return to this question with, hopefully, wisdom gained from a hundred years of trying to make that claim precise, and of arguing about whether it is true. I take two focal points for discussion: (1) the worry (or hope!) that quantum physics shows reductionism to be false, and (2) the hope (or worry!) that new formal insights can save reductionism.
For more information: https://www.ftl.usi.ch/it/feeds/14907
1 month, 2 weeks