Instruments of Unity: The Many Ways of Being One

团结的工具：合一的多种方式

• 批准号: EP/Y014278/1
• 负责人: Aaron Cotnoir
• 金额: $ 184.4万
• 依托单位: University of St Andrews
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY014278%2F1
• 关键词: Instruments; Unity; Many; Ways; Being

How do many things come together into single unified entity? What is it to be whole? How is a group united? How do we carve the world into its most natural units? We perceive unities everywhere: from ant colonies to the cellular automata, from organisms to organisations. Yet we have little understanding about the general constraints by which they unified. The Instruments of Unity Project tackles this abstract question in a way that provides concrete applicable answers. The core hypothesis: unity is a complex pluralistic phenomenon, requiring a multifaceted theoretical approach. We identify unity relations across a variety of formal settings, using tools from part/whole theory, theories of location, qualitative dimensions, modal logics, graph theory, weighted networks, topology, mathematical morphology, and more. In sum: there are many ways to be one.The project goals include: pioneering novel formal paradigms for unity; developing a measurement-theoretic 'Guide for Naturalness'; applying the framework to problems in metaphysics, including social and formal ontologies; and even addressing the 'meta'-question of whether there's any unity to the different types of unity. Along the way, we will rehabilitate a more holistic 'carving'-based metaphysics over against the dominant reductionistic 'building'-based paradigm. Based in the Arché Centre at the University of St Andrews, using the proven method of expert-led collaborative research, and advised by a Board of researchers from Europe and the US, the project progresses over three phases in five years. The team (composed of the PI, three postdocs, and a fully-funded PhD student) will deliver: over twenty articles in top journals, a research monograph, an open-access PhD thesis, a small workshop, a major conference, an annotated open-source bibliography, a downloadable reference database, and shareable infographics to facilitate accessible knowledge exchange to non-experts.

如何将许多事情融合到单个统一实体中？这是什么？团体如何联合？我们如何将世界雕刻成最自然的单位？我们将各地的单位感知到：从蚂蚁殖民到蜂窝自动机，从组织到组织。但是，我们对它们统一的一般约束几乎没有理解。 Unity项目的工具以提供具体的适用答案的方式解决了这个抽象问题。核心假设：统一是一种复杂的多元化现象，需要一种多方面的理论方法。我们使用部分/整个理论，位置的理论，定性逻辑，图形论，加权网络，拓扑，数学形态等等的工具，确定跨各种形式环境的统一关系。总而言之：有很多方法。项目目标包括：开创新的正式范式的团结范式；开发测量理论“自然指南”；将框架应用于形而上学的问题，包括社会和形式本体论；甚至解决与不同类型的团结是否有任何统一的“元”问题。一路上，我们将恢复一个更全面的基于“雕刻”的形而上学，而不是与主导的还原性“建筑物”范式。该项目总部位于圣安德鲁斯大学的Arché中心，采用了良好的专家领导的合作研究方法，并在欧洲和美国的研究委员会的建议下，该项目在五年内超过了三个阶段。该团队（由PI组成，三个博士后和一个全资金的博士生）将交付：超过二十个文章，一篇是研究专着，研究专着，开放式访问博士学位论文，一个小型研讨会，一次大会，一个注释的开放式源书馆，可下载的参考文献，可访问的知识与不可访问的知识，以访问不可接受的知识。