[學術演講]Ontological Dependence and Generative Grounding (12/01)

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主講人：韓成一（Sungil Han）教授

首爾大學哲學系教授

主  題：Ontological Dependence and   Generative Grounding

評論人：Gaétan Bovey（本系博士後研究員）

時  間：114年12月1日（週一)14:30-16:30pm

地  點：人文館345室（台北市羅斯福路四段1號）

歡迎參加討論，謝謝！

Seminar

Speaker: Prof. Sungil Han (Professor, College of

                    Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Seoul

                    National University)

Title: Ontological Dependence and            Generative Grounding

Respondent: Dr. Gaétan Bovey(Postdoctoral

                           Researcher, Department of Philosophy,NTU)

Date: 14:30 – 16:30 pm,Monday,December 1,2025

Venue: Room 345, Humanities Hall (No. 1,Section 4, 

                Roosevelt Road, Taipei)

Abstract：

In the Aristotelian layered view of reality, the hierarchical structure among entities is delineated by relations of ontological dependence. For scholars of Aristotelian persuasion, elucidating the nature of such dependence is a central task. Since the revival of the traditional notion of essence, it has become widely accepted that ontological dependence is a kind of essential dependence. This paper challenges this essentialist approach. Substances are not bare particulars but intelligible entities. Guided by this Aristotelian insight, I argue that substances are essentially dependent on, and made intelligible by, their substantial kinds, while remaining ontologically prior to them. The essentialist approach implicitly assumes that essence precedes existence—that the essence of an object is a precondition for its existence. To understand how an object can be ontologically prior to another on which it essentially depends, this anti-existentialist assumption must be rejected. I develop an existentialist account of ontological dependence in terms of what I call generative grounding.