Dear all, Next Thursday (the 13th) Tuomas Tahko will be speaking at the Serious Metaphysics Group, on 'Fundamentality and Ontological Well-foundedness' (abstract below). We'll meet at the regular time of 1:00 - 2:30pm, in the Faculty Board Room.
Hope to see you there, Georgie Fundamentality and Ontological Well-foundedness Fundamentality is often characterized in terms of well-foundedness – a set-theoretical notion associated with the axiom of foundation. Well-foundedness can be defined for parthood or some other order. It states that every nonempty subset of a given domain has a minimal element. Well-foundedness rules out infinite descent and the minimal element may be considered fundamental. This paper expands the applicability of the notion of well-foundedness by introducing an ontological version of it: an order is said to be ontologically well-founded if there is an analogous, 'ontologically minimal' element. The idea of ontological minimality will be examined and it emerges that it may be compatible with some versions of metaphysical infinitism. _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
