[PHILOS-L] Call for Participation. Inheritance, Location, Presence. Ca'Foscari University, Venice, 4-5 June

[Claudio CALOSI]

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Call for Participation

 TiPS center at Ca’Foscari University

https://www.unive.it/web/en/7380/home

and Ca’ Foscari University in Venice invites participation to the following workshop:

 

Inheritance, Location, Presence

Ca’ Foscari,

4^th -5^th June 2026

Ca’ Foscari Zattere, Aula Tesa 1

 

It is common to talk about something inheriting a feature from something else. Examples abound and are varied: conjunctions inherit their truth from their conjuncts, a fact inherits its fundamentality from the fundamentality of its constituents, wholes inherit some of their properties from those of its parts. The workshop centres around the notion of inheritance in general and its application to notions of location and presence in particular. The last case is of particular relevance in a number of metaphysical issues where something inherits its presence at a place from something located at that place. Surprisingly, this has significant consequences for cases as diverse as realism about universals, the ontology of social entities, and divine omnipresence.

 

 

4^th June

9.30-10.45 Sam Baron (Melbourne) What is Physical Location

10.45-11.00 Break

11.00-12.15 Lisa Vogt (Geneva) Grounding Harmony

 

12.15-14.30 Lunch Break

 

14.30- 15.45 Joshua Babic (USI) Bare Bundles

15.45- 16.00 Break

16.00-17.15 Naomi Thompson (Bristol) & Anna Sofia Mauren (Goteborg) Brute Inheritance

 

 

5^th June

9.30-10.45 Ulrich Meyer (Colgate) Measure and Extension

10.45-11.00 Break

11.00-12.15 Damiano Costa (USI): Multi-location and the Functionality of Distance

 

12.15-14.30 Lunch Break

14.30- 15.45 Pietro Berardi Gili (Geneva) An Axiomatic Theory of Rigid Embodiments

15.45- 16.00 Break

16.00-17.15 Simon Evnine (Miami) Inheritance of Properties in Hylomorphic Metaphysics: Finean Embodiments and Other Matters

 

For further info (including the possibility of online attendance) write to: claudio...@unive.it

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Claudio Calosi | PhD

Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science

Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage

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