Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship Departmental Seminar: Bolzano on the Identity of Indiscernibles
Prof. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra |
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4:30 – 6:30 pm |
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Room 220, Fung King Hey Building (with synchronous online broadcast) |
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Abstract:
In his Wissenschaftslehre of 1837 Bernard Bolzano presented a new argument for the Identity of Indiscernibles, the thesis that there aren’t two things sharing all their attributes. The argument is clearly different from every other argument I know of for the Identity of Indiscernibles. In the seminar I shall discuss the argument and present my reasons for thinking that Bolzano’s argument is either invalid or unsound.