The Fragmentation of Reality
Master in Philosophy
23 Luglio 2018
A two-day workshop held at USI.
In cooperation with eidos – the centre for metaphysics.
July 21-22 2018
Speakers: Kris McDaniel (Syracuse), Matti Eklund (Uppsala), Kevin Mulligan (Lugano), Martin Lipman (Amsterdam), Alex Skiles (Göteborg), Naomi Thompson (Southampton), Tobias Wilsch (Tübingen)
The workshop, supported by the SNSF project “Connectives, Predicates, and Priority”, is centred on the idea that reality is somehow divided into different sectors, an idea that goes back (at least) to Plato’s ‘two worlds’ and Aristotle’s Categories.
It shed light in the following and related questions: what considerations, if any, would support such a fragmentation in contemporary philosophical frameworks? Do such considerations also support the postulation of different ‘ways of being’ or modes of existence? What about degrees of existence? Are the various sectors or categories arranged in one or more hierarchies?
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