This series of events are held on campus for philosophy students and on Zoom for everyone. To participate in these events, please write to events.isfi@usi.ch.
The recordings will then be posted on the ISFI youtube channel.
Speakers
- Giuliano Torrengo
- Francesca Boccuni
- Hans Halvorson
- Carlo Nicolai
- Cristian Mariani
Schedule
14.3.2025
Time: 17:30 (CET)
Venue: Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus)
Giuliano Torrengo (Milan)
One experience after another
In this talk, I scrutinize the phenomenology of having one experience after another and distinguishing it from other temporal experiences such as change, duration, and the passage of time. I then argue that even though the flow of experience is often described as smooth, we do not experience the temporal dimension as a continuous series of locations. This gives us reasons to believe that experience is not just discontinuous, but also constituted by disunified flows.
Chaired by Cristian Mariani (USI)
21.3.2025
Time: 17:30 (CET)
Venue: Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus)
Francesca Boccuni (Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Forever Young: A Hundred Years of (Frege’s) Abstractionism
Famously, Frege’s logicist programme for the foundations of mathematics, based on higher-order logic and abstraction principles, was doomed to failure due to inconsistency. Nonetheless, the legacy of his inquiry was not lost: A hundred years after Frege’s passing, the debate around his philosophy of mathematics is still vigorous, and investigation into the roots of the inconsistency of his programme has prompted alternative ways to use Fregean abstractions for foundational purposes. In this talk, we will explore Frege’s Logicism, its inconsistency, and several possible solutions proposed in the most recent logico-philosophical debate.
Chaired by Byron Simmons (ISFI)
4.4.2025
Time: 17:30 (CET)
Venue: Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus)
Hans Halvorson (Princeton)
Reduction redux
To his list of perennial philosophical questions, Kant might have added: can everything be reduced to the microphysical basis? I return to this question with, hopefully, wisdom gained from a hundred years of trying to make that claim precise, and of arguing about whether it is true. I take two focal points for discussion: (1) the worry (or hope!) that quantum physics shows reductionism to be false, and (2) the hope (or worry!) that new formal insights can save reductionism.
Chaired by Joshua Babic (ISFI)
15.4.2025
Time: 17:30 (CET)
Venue: Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus)
Carlo Nicolai (King's College London)
TBA
Chaired by Leon Probst (ISFI)
9.5.2025
23.5.2025
Time: 17:30 (CET)
Venue: Room Multiuso FTL Building (USI west campus)
Vincent Lam (Bern)
TBA
Chaired by Cristian Mariani (ISFI)
Organisers
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