COPERNICAN APPROACHES
TO CLASSES
SPEAKERS
ABOUT
In “Class and Membership” (2003) Kit Fine proposed a “Copernican Revolution” in the theory of classes. In the iterative conception of set one takes the set-membership relation for granted and one iteratively expands the ontology of sets. In the Copernican approach to classes one takes the ontology of classes for granted and one iteratively expands the class-membership relation. A striking feature of this theory is that it allows a universal (and thus a self-membered) class while retaining classical logic. Related theories have been explored by Button, Church, Forster, Linnebo, and Roberts, amongst others.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together leading specialists to assess the current state of the Copernican Revolution.
TOPICS
Topics may include:
- Logical classes as opposed to combinatorial sets;
- Liberalizing predicativity beyond the vicious circle principle;
- Church-Oswald set theory;
- Developing strong (and/or) useful theories of classes;
- Further applications: mereology, properties, propositions, etc.;
- The justifiability of using classical logic in developing such theories;
- Copernican approaches to arbitrary objects;
- The metaphysical interpretation of these theories (using essence, real definition etc).
SCHEDULE
TBA
VENUE
The conference takes place at the University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, situated in Blindern Campus, building: Geor Morgenstiernes hus.
The conference room is GMH 652. This is the conference room situated at the 6th floor of the department, at the end of the corridor.
How to get to Blindern (Link 1/Link 2)
- Tram: line 17 and 18 towards Rikshospitalet, Stop at Universitetet Blindern (or John Colletts Plass in case of road works).
- Metro (T Bane): line 4 (Vestli via Storo), 5 (Ringen via Storo) 5 (Sognsvann), Stop at Blindern.