{"id":762,"date":"2019-05-30T05:51:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-70\/"},"modified":"2019-05-30T05:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:51:56","slug":"seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/seminar-series-in-analytic-philosophy-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar Series in Analytic Philosophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Crowther<\/p>\n<p>University of Geneva<\/p>\n<h6><strong><em>Levels of Fundamentality in the Metaphysics of Physics<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><strong>31 May 2019, 16:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o <\/strong>(Departamento de Filosofia)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong> Judging by how physicists use the term, there are many different conceptions of what it means for a physical theory to be &#8216;fundamental&#8217;. Yet, it has been argued that none of these imply metaphysical fundamentality. Here, I argue that there is a plausible sense of\u00a0<em>relative fundamentality<\/em>\u00a0in physics that corresponds to a fairly standard conception of relative fundamentality according to metaphysics. I discuss what the implications of this are for our understanding of &#8216;levels&#8217; of fundamentality and explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Crowther University of Geneva Levels of Fundamentality in the Metaphysics of Physics 31 May 2019, 16:00 Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa Sala Mattos Rom\u00e3o (Departamento de Filosofia) Abstract: Judging by how physicists use the term, there are many different conceptions of what it means for a physical theory to be &#8216;fundamental&#8217;. Yet, it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cful.letras.ulisboa.pt\/lancog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}