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SUMMARY:Marcello Oreste Fiocco (UC Irvine): Metaphysics and Radical Ontol
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: I characterize *metaphysics* as a unified disciplin
 e\, one that provides the basis for all inquiry.  This discipline has a 
 distinctive problem\, arising from the needs of a metaphysical theory to
  be comprehensive and general\, yet unremittingly critical.  I critique 
 alternative approaches to metaphysics in contemporary discussions in ord
 er to determine whether those that would deflate it undermine the accoun
 t of the discipline I propose\, and whether those that endorse an ambiti
 ous discipline can contribute to resolving its distinctive problem.  I c
 onclude that neither is the case.  This makes pressing the need for a no
 vel methodology in metaphysics.  This methodology would provide an accou
 nt of what a *thing*—in the most general sense—is.  Such an account prov
 ides the means for resolving perennial disputes concerning the integrity
  of the structure in reality—whether its connections are necessary—and t
 he intricacy of this structure—what the apt notion of fundamentality is.
   The key to the requisite methodology is adopting a singular perspectiv
 e\; regarding the world as mere posit\, as the *impetus to inquiry*\, on
 e can attain an account of what a thing must be.  *Radical Ontology* is 
 a systematic metaphysics—broadly Aristotelian\, essentialist and anti-re
 ductionist—that develops the consequences of this account.  The system i
 s radical in that it arises from the roots of inquiry and ontological in
  that it begins\, not with impressions nor ideas nor concepts nor phenom
 ena\, but with the existence of things.
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LOCATION:Lecture Room E\, Zochonis Building\, Manchester
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