Damiano Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damiano Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damiano |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università della Svizzera italiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9707-3622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pluralisms in gunky worlds
Aristotelian universals, strong immanence, and construction
The Aristotelian view of universals, according to which each universal generically depends for its existence on its instantiations, has recently come under attack by a series of ground-theoretic arguments. The last such arguments, presented by Raven, promises to offer several significant improvements over its predecessors, such as avoiding commitment to the transitivity of ground and offering new reasons for the metaphysical priority of universal…
Mereological endurantism defined
I develop a definition of mereological endurantism which overcomes objections that have been proposed in the literature and thereby avoids the charge of obscurity put forward by Sider against the view
What is priority monism? Reply to Kovacs
Priority monism is the view that the cosmos is the basic concrete entity on which each of its parts depends.Kovacs has recently argued that none of the classical notions of dependence could be used to spell out priority monism.I argue that four notions of dependencenamely rigid existential dependence, generic existential dependence, explanatory dependence, and generalised explanatory dependencecan indeed be used to spell out priority monism and s…
Fine’s Monster Objection Defanged
The Monster Objection has often been considered one of the main reasons to explore non-standard mereological views, such as hylomorphism. Still, it has been rarely discussed and then only in a cursory fashion. This paper fills this gap by offering the first thorough assessment of the objection. It argues that different metaphysical stances, such as presentism and three- and four-dimensionalism, provide different ways of undermining the objection
The Multi-location Trilemma
An argument against Aristotelian universals
Relativity and Three Four-dimensionalisms
Relativity theory is often said to support something called 'the four-dimensional view of reality'. But there are at least three different views that sometimes go by this name. One is 'spacetime unitism' (as we call it), according to which there is a spacetime manifold, and if there are such things as points of space or instants of time, these are just spacetime regions of different sorts: thus space and time are not separate manifolds. A second …
Relativity and Three Four-dimensionalisms
Relativity theory is often said to support something called 'the four-dimensional view of reality'. But there are at least three different views that sometimes go by this name. One is 'spacetime unitism' (as we call it), according to which there is a spacetime manifold, and if there are such things as points of space or instants of time, these are just spacetime regions of different sorts: thus space and time are not separate manifolds. A second …
An argument against Aristotelian universals
Relativity and Three Four-dimensionalisms
Relativity theory is often said to support something called 'the four-dimensional view of reality'. But there are at least three different views that sometimes go by this name. One is 'spacetime unitism' (as we call it), according to which there is a spacetime manifold, and if there are such things as points of space or instants of time, these are just spacetime regions of different sorts: thus space and time are not separate manifolds. A second …
An argument against Aristotelian universals
The Multi-location Trilemma
Mereological endurantism defined
I develop a definition of mereological endurantism which overcomes objections that have been proposed in the literature and thereby avoids the charge of obscurity put forward by Sider against the view
What is priority monism? Reply to Kovacs
Priority monism is the view that the cosmos is the basic concrete entity on which each of its parts depends.Kovacs has recently argued that none of the classical notions of dependence could be used to spell out priority monism.I argue that four notions of dependencenamely rigid existential dependence, generic existential dependence, explanatory dependence, and generalised explanatory dependencecan indeed be used to spell out priority monism and s…
Fine’s Monster Objection Defanged
The Monster Objection has often been considered one of the main reasons to explore non-standard mereological views, such as hylomorphism. Still, it has been rarely discussed and then only in a cursory fashion. This paper fills this gap by offering the first thorough assessment of the objection. It argues that different metaphysical stances, such as presentism and three- and four-dimensionalism, provide different ways of undermining the objection
Aristotelian universals, strong immanence, and construction
The Aristotelian view of universals, according to which each universal generically depends for its existence on its instantiations, has recently come under attack by a series of ground-theoretic arguments. The last such arguments, presented by Raven, promises to offer several significant improvements over its predecessors, such as avoiding commitment to the transitivity of ground and offering new reasons for the metaphysical priority of universal…
Pluralisms in gunky worlds
Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 works) · Metaphysics (6 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Problem of universals (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works)