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Mereological Reconstruction of the Metaphysical System in the Daodejing

Descrizione del progetto

Uno sguardo più attento alla metafisica cinese

Il Daodejing è una delle opere taoiste più importanti della filosofia cinese. Il suo livello metafisico verrà ricostruito avvalendosi di un approccio mereologico (lo studio delle relazioni tra le parti e il tutto che esse costituiscono). Il progetto Mereodao, finanziato dall’UE, analizzerà elementi fondamentali della metafisica taoista, impiegandola come punto di accesso per fasi successive di ricostruzione, tra cui norme di composizione, temporalità e casualità. Lo studio approfondirà il modo in cui la ricostruzione si relaziona con la localizzazione, una questione ampiamente discussa nella letteratura contemporanea in materia di mereologia. In generale, il progetto colmerà le lacune di ricerca nella metafisica cinese mediante ricostruzioni a livello mereologico e analitico e offrirà una concettualizzazione del sistema metafisico taoista.

Obiettivo

The project is a mereological reconstruction of the metaphysical system in the Daodejing. The general motivation for the project is to fill the gap in Chinese and comparative philosophy the state of the art, where mereological as well as analytic reconstructions are scarce. The specific motivation is that mereological approach enables precise reconstruction that (a) offers a comprehensive conceptualization of Daoist metaphysical system and (b) allows to generate the issues and plausibly debates that so far have not been present in Chinese metaphysics. My project begins with the conceptualization of the Daoist system as monistic-materialistic one, after which I proceed to the mereological reconstruction. By resorting to the latest mereological research, I will analyze the status of the two fundamental elements of Daoist metaphysics, dao and you. Accordingly, I will show that these two ontic subregions should be reconstructed as two different mereological sums determined by atemporal unrestricted composition and temporal restricted composition respectively. Next, I will proceed to reconstructing the relation between the two sums, which will be conceptualized within the framework of Chinese causation theory. I will show that causality applies to the relations between parts that that the two mereological sums overlap. Next, I will proceed to a detailed reconstruction of the whole system, which will involve among others proving that with regard to parthood, the “atomless gunk” conception is more plausible than that of mereological singles. I will also discuss how the reconstruction is related to location, an issue that has been under intense discussion in contemporary mereological literature.

Meccanismo di finanziamento

ERC-STG - Starting Grant

Istituzione ospitante

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 229 500,00
Indirizzo
WELLINGTON SQUARE UNIVERSITY OFFICES
OX1 2JD Oxford
Regno Unito

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Regione
South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Oxfordshire
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 229 500,00

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