Date: 11th June 2017
Time: 15:30 – 18:30
Venue:
Room A, Akihabara Satellite Campus,Tokyo Metropolitan University (Akihabara Dai Bldg., 12F, 1-18-13 Soto-kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

Speakers:
Ricki Bliss (Lehigh University / University of Hamburg)
Filippo Casati (Kyoto Univesity)

Abstracts:
Some Work for a Theory of Grounding?
Ricki Bliss (Lehigh University / University of Hamburg)
Jessica Wilson has recently argued that there is no work for what she calls big-G Grounding: the kind of grounding that theorists such as Fine and Schaffer invoke. Instead, she argues, we can do all the metaphysical dependence work that needs to be done using only what she calls small-g grounding relations: identity, parthood, membership, and so on. In this paper, I argue that, on the contrary, there may well be some work for a theory of Ground because we do not appear able to properly engage with important historical figures armed only with the small-g relations. I focus on the particular case of the relationship between essences and God in Leibniz, and argue that no small-g relation, or conjunction of small-g relations, can adequately capture the connection.

From Heidegger to Nishitani: Inconsistent Structures of Reality
Filippo Casati (Kyoto Univesity)
Current metaphysicians have almost unanimously told us that reality has a structure and that such a structure has consistent properties. Nevertheless, this has not been always the case. In the past, some philosophers have defended metaphysical pictures according to which reality has a structure but such a structure has inconsistent properties. In my talk, bridging both the Eastern and the Western tradition, I will discuss the metaphysics of Martin Heidegger and Keiji Nishitani, I will show that these metaphysics suggest an inconsistent structure of reality and I will try to make logical sense of it.

Organizer:
Naoya Fujikawa (Tokyo Metropolitan Univertisy, fjnaoya [at] gmail [dot] com )

Acknowledgement:
This Workshop is supported by JSPS through grant 16H03344 `Dialetheism and Asian Thoughts’