Seminar with Nurbay Irmak: Kinds, types, and properties
About this Event
This is an on-line seminar co-organized jointly by Law-Language-Philosophy Research Network as well as Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University and Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. It will take place via Zoom on 13th May 2021. To get the link before the event, please register on Eventbrite (until 12th May 2021). In case you have any question, please contact the host: p.banas@uw.edu.pl
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/llprn-on-line-seminar-kinds-types-and-properties-tickets-152471070075
Abstract:
Kinds and types are often employed to group certain individual objects and events on the basis of some shared property. The kind chair, for instance, takes concrete individuals as its members based on some shared intentional and/or functional properties. Artifactual types such as musical works do something similar for certain concrete objects or events. For instance, the type Symphony No. 7 in A Major takes certain sounds events as its tokens on the basis of some shared intentional and/or sonic properties. It seems clear, then, that there are interesting relationships between kinds, types, and associated properties. In fact, it is not uncommon in the literature to see views where kinds are identified with (complex) properties or types. I argue that these views fail to capture what seems to be essential to our understanding of both natural and artifactual kinds. If this is correct, then kinds cannot be understood as properties or types. Based on the lessons drawn from the discussion on the relations between kinds, types, and properties, I argue for a number of claims that any successful ontology of kinds should accommodate.
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This seminar is a free event, a part of the project no 2020/36/C/HS5/00600 funded by the National Science Center of Poland (Analysis of the concept of a legal person from an ontological and linguistic perspective; Pricipal Investigator: Paweł Banaś PhD)