Event Detail
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Thu Apr 28, 2011 Howison Library 4:10–6 PM |
Philosophy Colloquium Ted Sider (NYU) The Metaphysics of Fundamentality |
The concept of fundamentality is central to metaphysics as well as metametaphysics. I will address some abstract questions about its nature. Is it all-or-nothing or does it come in degrees? Is it “propositional” or “subpropositional”? Is the notion of fundamentality itself fundamental?