Ratio Workshop: Location, Grounding, and Mereology
Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano
Start date: 2 February 2026 / 10:15
End date: 3 February 2026 / 18:00
Room 1.3 (Monday) / Room Multiuso (Tuesday)
The “Location, Grounding, and Mereology” workshop focuses on three core topics in contemporary formal metaphysics: mereology, theories of location, and grounding. Through contributions of leading international scholars, the event seeks to foster new research directions on fundamental philosophical issues.
Program
Monday, 2 February, Room 1.3
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10.15 |
Greetings and introduction |
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Chair: Maoyuan Zhu (USI) |
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10.30 |
Decompositional Multitude and Multilocation Shieva Kleinschmidt (University of Southern California) |
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11.30 |
On the Primitives of Location Theory Fabrice Correia (University of Geneva) |
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12.30 |
Lunch break |
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Chair: Satbhav Voleti (USI) |
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14.30 |
Redefining Temporal Parthood Francisca Silva (University of St Andrews) |
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15.30 |
Location-based Individuation of Composite Systems Alessandro Giordani (Catholic University of Milan) |
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16.30 |
Coffee break |
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17.00 |
Banach-Tarski and the Material World Jacopo Giraldo (University of Padua) |
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18.00 |
Toward an organicist answer to the ground-theoretic general Cody Gilmore (University of California, Davis) |
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19.00 |
Social dinner |
Tuesday, 3 February, Room Multiuso
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Chair: Dani Alnashi (USI) |
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09.30 |
Multi-location and the functionality of distance Damiano Costa (USI) |
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10.30 |
What Unextended Complexes Can’t Do Christabel Cane (University College London) |
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11.30 |
Coffee break |
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12.00 |
Outline of a Theory of Monism Claudio Calosi (University of Venice) |
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13.00 |
Lunch break |
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Chair: Elena Padoan (USI) |
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14.45 |
Vague Mereology Aaron Cotnoir (University of St Andrews) |
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15.45 |
Demonotonicity, Delegation, and Mereotopological Harmony Achille Varzi (Columbia University) |
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16.45 |
Coffee break |
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17.00 |
Location, Modality, and Realization Gabriel Uzquiano (University of Southern California) |
Place
Room 1.3 (Monday) / Room Multiuso (Tuesday)
Facoltà di Teologia
USI Campus Ovest
Via Buffi 13, Lugano
Organisation
Ratio Association
Institute of Philosophy (FTL)
Informations and registrations
[email protected]