Thesis supervisor: Dániel Kodaj
Location of studies (in Hungarian): ELTE BTK Abbreviation of location of studies: ELTE
Description of the research topic:
Any topic within contemporary analytic metaphysics. These include questions about emergence and fundamentality (the interpretation of these concepts, arguments for and against weak or strong emergence, arguments for or against specific ontological dualism or monism, arguments for specific dualist or monist ontologies), the nature of possibility and necessity (either through the mirror of modal logic, see T. Williamson: Modal Logic as Metaphysics, or within the framework of traditional possible-world metaphysics, see Loux (ed.): The Possible and the Actual, or in avantgarde fashion, see e.g. Vetter: Potentiality), metaphysics of science (laws of nature, causality, the nature of probability, powers and dispositions, ontic structuralism, for guidance see Sider: The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science), mereology (see e.g. van Inwagen: Material Beings, Evnine: Making Objects and Events), social ontology (see e.g. Searle: Making the Social World, Ásta: Categories we Live by), non-mainstream theories about the nature of matter (such as panpsychism (Goff: Consciousness and Fundamental Reality and Galileo's Error) or idealism (Kodaj: "Humean idealism")), realism and anti-realism in general, metaontology (see e.g. Chalmers/Hawthorne/Wasserman (eds.): Metametaphysics).
Required language skills: angol Number of students who can be accepted: 1