10:37 a.m.
On May 20—21, a workshop on Arbitrary Objects will take place at USI with Kit Fine (NYU),
Alessandro Giordani (Catholic University Milan, USI), Leon Horsten (Konstanz) and Giorgio
Venturi (Pisa).
This workshop will take place in Aula 354 (USI West Campus, Lugano) and also be streamed
on Zoom; to get the link please write to leon.probst(a)usi.ch
More information: https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/24102
Here is the abstract of the workshop:
After Fine's seminal work, Reasoning with Arbitrary Objects (1985), arbitrary objects
have recently regained some interest, e.g. Horsten’s The Metaphysics and Mathematics of
Arbitrary Objects (2019). The recentness of this field makes it particularly prone to a
diversity of views and approaches about which theory of arbitrary objects should we
endorse, and what are their applications. The aim of this workshop is to assess all these
questions with some of the leading scholars working on this topic.