{"id":1535,"date":"2023-03-06T17:25:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:25:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:25:37","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2022-23-session-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-2022-23-session-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy 2022-23: Session 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>How to Build Things With Atoms<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Claudio Calosi<\/p>\n<p>University of Geneva<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>10 March 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET)<\/p>\n<p>Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/p>\n<p>Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed\u00a0of atoms.\u00a0Typically, this\u00a0thesis is characterized by an axiom stating\u00a0that everything\u00a0has atomic parts. The present paper argues that the success of this\u00a0standard characterization crucially depends on how\u00a0the notion of sum and composition are defined.\u00a0In particular,\u00a0it\u00a0puts\u00a0forward a novel definition of mereological sum that:\u00a0(i) is not equivalent to extant definitions in the literature, provided no strong decomposition principle is assumed,\u00a0(ii) can be used to claim that the standard\u00a0characterization of atomism fails in that having atomic parts is not sufficient to be the sum of\u00a0atoms,\u00a0\u00a0(iii) delivers a purely mereological distinction between structured and unstructured wholes,\u00a0and (iv) is sensitive to the (alleged) hierarchical nature of composition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Build Things With Atoms Claudio Calosi University of Geneva &nbsp; 10 March 2023, 16:00 (Lisbon Time \u2013 WET) Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) &nbsp; Abstract: Atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed\u00a0of atoms.\u00a0Typically, this\u00a0thesis is characterized by an axiom stating\u00a0that everything\u00a0has atomic parts. The present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.demiurgos.eu\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}