8Dec

Sigma Club Seminar by Prof Claudio Calosi (Ca' Foscari University, Venice)

Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and CPNSS.

In person at LAK 2.06, Lakatos Building, London, WC2A 2AE United Kingdom. Online (Via Zoom)

Monday 8 December 2025 4pm - 5.30pm

Title: Locating Quantum Parts and Wholes

Speaker: Professor Claudio Calosi (Ca' Foscari University, Venice)

Abstract: Recent arguments from quantum theories (from non-relativistic quantum mechanics to quantum theories of gravity) have challenged widely held (and considerably weak) inheritance principles about locations of parts and wholes. I explore several strategies to deal with such quantum challenges before landing on a very general one. Such general strategy requires what can be considered a relatively minor adjustment in our formal theories of parthood and location (but still an adjustment).

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