1:21 p.m.
We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, February 21 at 5.30pm (CET), Claudio Calosi
(UNIGE), Alessandro Cecconi (UNIGE), and Damiano Costa (USI) will give the talk A chair
for Minkowski as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Spring 2024 organised by the
Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.
This hybrid talk will take place in room 0.5 of the FTL Building, USI West Campus and
online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining it online, please write to
events.isfi(a)usi.ch
For more information: https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/26653
Here is the abstract of the talk:
Is it possible to find ordinary objects, in a relativistic world? And if yes, to what
extent and at what cost? In this paper, we discuss the problem of relativistic change and
how it threatens our received view of ordinary objects. More precisely, we will show how
the problem arises, given two metaphysics of persistence, i.e., 4- and 3-dimensionalism,
thus generalizing a formulation due to Sattig (2015). Finally, we will assess different
strategies and evaluate their costs.