On Friday, 20 May, Carl Hoefer (ICREA and University of Barcelona) will give a talk titled “Much Ado About Nothing: The Dubious Roles of Points in the Metaphysics of Spacetime” (abstract below).
The meeting will be online on Zoom (17:00-19:00 CEST). If you have not registered yet, you can do so here.
The videos of the previous meetings are available on YouTube.
You can address any inquiry to antonio.vassallo@pw.edu.pl.
ABSTRACT
In a new generation of work on the Hole argument and the right way to formulate substantivalism, the tiniest things of all continue to play an outsized role. In my talk, I will discuss some of the mischiefs that philosophers cause with points, and then offer some reflections on how we might try to re-think the issues.