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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