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URL:https://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/activities/the-ground-between-the-gaps/
SUMMARY:The Ground Between the Gaps
DESCRIPTION:unusual venue (Seminari del Departament de L&ograve\;gica\, His
 t&ograve\;ria i Filosofia de la Ci&egrave\;ncia. UB)Suppose that an infini
 te mind were given all the fundamental facts plus  an analysis of all high
 er level concepts. Would she be in position to  infer all the remaining fa
 cts? For instance\, if she were given the full  distribution of Hs and Os\
 , and a conceptual analysis of &#39\;water&#39\;\, would  she be in positi
 on to infer the facts about the distribution of water? I  will argue that 
 she would face two &quot\;explanatory gaps&quot\;: (1) she would  face the
  &quot\;mereological gap&quot\; in going from the distribution of Hs and O
 s  to the distribution of H2O\, and (2) she would face &quot\;the conceptu
 al gap&quot\;  in going from the distribution of H2O to the distribution o
 f water. Much  of the debate in the literature has concerned whether she c
 an cross the  conceptual gap\, but I will argue that she cannot cross the 
 mereological  gap unless sheis also given substantive metaphysical princip
 les about  when mereological composition occurs and what mereological comp
 osites  are like. Without being given substantive metaphysical principles 
  concerning what grounds what she will be able to infer nothing. With  suc
 h principles she might be able to infer everything\, including the  mental
  states of creatures in a physical world.
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
LOCATION:Seminari del Departament de Lògica\, Història i Filosofia de la 
 Ciència. UB (Room 4047)
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