We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday, February 21 at 5.30pm (CET), Claudio Calosi (UNIGE), Alessandro Cecconi (UNIGE), and Damiano Costa (USI) will give the talk A chair for Minkowski as part of the Lugano Philosophy Colloquia Spring 2024 organised by the Institute of Philosophy (ISFI) at USI.

This hybrid talk will take place at USI West Campus and online via Zoom. If you are interested in joining it online, please write to events.isfi@usi.ch

For more information: https://www.usi.ch/en/feeds/26653

Here is the abstract of the talk:

Is it possible to find ordinary objects, in a relativistic world? And if yes, to what extent and at what cost? In this paper, we discuss the problem of relativistic change and how it threatens our received view of ordinary objects. More precisely, we will show how the problem arises, given two metaphysics of persistence, i.e., 4- and 3-dimensionalism, thus generalizing a formulation due to Sattig (2015). Finally, we will assess different strategies and evaluate their costs.