Mereology and Plurals

“Mereology and Plurals”, 1-2 December 2025, Palazzo Camponeschi, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila

Program

Monday 1 December

10.00-10.15, Greetings and Introduction

10.15-11.10, Jonathan Payton (Bilkent University, Ankara), The Reductionist's Guide to Mereology

Break

11.35-12.30, Jacopo Giraldo (Università di Padova), Banach-Tarski and the Material World (joint work with Filippo Mancini)

12.30-13.25, Cristina Nencha (Università di Bergamo), On Modality and Essentialism

Lunch

15.00-15.55, Niccolò Benedetti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Mereological Fictionalism and Mereological Fiction: Myth or Simulation?

Break

16.20-17.15, Martina Botti (Columbia University, New York), To Be Many Ones: Parts, Quantity, and Quantification in Aristotle

17.15-18.10, Massimiliano Carrara (Università di Padova), Word Count

Tuesday 2 December

10.00-10.55 Filippo Costantini (CNRS, Paris), Metaphysical In(de)finitism

Break 

11.20-12.15, Riccardo Baratella (Università di Genova), Embodiments and Their Identity (joint work with Øystein Linnebo)

12.15-13.10 Claudio Calosi (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Logic of Composition, Logic of Location

No registration is needed and everybody is welcome. For any information, please contact: giorgio.lando@univaq.it. 

The workshop is accessible online at this link.