Mereology and Plurals

Program

Monday 1 December
10.00-10.15, Greetings and Introduction
10.15-11.10, Jonathan Payton (Bilkent University, Ankara), The Reductionist's Guide to Mereology

Break

11.35-12.30, Jacopo Giraldo (Università di Padova), Banach-Tarski and the Material World (joint work with Filippo Mancini)
12.30-13.25, Cristina Nencha (Università di Bergamo), On Modality and Essentialism

Lunch

15.00-15.55, Niccolò Benedetti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Mereological Fictionalism and Mereological Fiction: Myth or Simulation?

16.20-17.15, Martina Botti (Columbia University, New York), To Be Many Ones: Parts, Quantity, and Quantification in Aristotle
17.15-18.10, Massimiliano Carrara (Università di Padova), Word Count

Social Dinner
Tuesday 2 December
10.00-10.55 Filippo Costantini (CNRS, Paris), Metaphysical In(de)finitism

Break 

11.20-12.15, Riccardo Baratella (Università di Genova), Embodiments and Their Identity (joint work with Øystein Linnebo)
12.15-13.10 Claudio Calosi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Logic of Composition, Logic of Location

Finanziato da: PRIN 2022 "The Varieties of Grounding”; Unione Europea - Next Generation EU, Missione 4 Componente 1, CUP E53D23008940006

No registration is needed and everybody is welcome. For any information, please contact: [email protected].