Title：The Bundle Theory of Objects

Lecturer: Prof. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, University of Oxford, UK

Time: Wednesday, March 27, 2024, 18:30-20:00

Venue: Room 406, Business School Building, Xuhui Campus

Organizer: Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology

Host: Assoc. prof. Zeyu Peng

Synopsis:

According to The Bundle Theory of Objects, objects (apples, houses, people, atoms, etc.) are composed entirely of their properties or qualities, so that an apple has no parts except its color, shape, size, smell, etc. This theory is in sharp contrast to substrate theory.

This theory contrasts with the Substratum Theory. The Substratum theory states that objects are composed of their properties and the substrate on which these properties are embedded or “supported”. In this talk, Prof. Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra will discuss one of the main objections to Object Bundle Theory, which is that it excludes the possibility of objects having exactly the same properties or exactly similar objects (two identical twins).

After the lecture, you will be able to ask questions on issues of interest and meet the professor face-to-face.

Lecture Registration:

This lecture is open to all students and faculty members of the university, so interested students and faculty members are invited to register by March 22 by clicking on the following link

https://docs.qq.com/form/page/DRk94R0ZhYUlCQXFO.

 

Introduction to the Lecturer:

See the University of Oxford Philosophy Department website for more information: https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/gonzalo-rodriguez-pereyra

◼ Educational and Professional Background: 

Undergraduate degree from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina); 

Completed a postgraduate course in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge (Peterhouse College and Churchill College) under the tutelage of David Hugh Mellor (British philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he was Vice-Chancellor). After a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge, he was a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford since 2001; 

Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and at the Technical University of Buenos Aires since 2005; 

Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham and the Technical University of Buenos Aires from 2005. 

◼ Recent books 

Two Arguments for Indefensible Identity, Oxford University Press (2022)

Leibniz: Metaphysical Discourse, Oxford University Press (2020)

Nominalism about Properties, Routledge (2015)

Leibniz's Principle of Indistinguishable Identity, Oxford University Press (2014)