20-22 Sep 2021
Call for Papers for the conference EXPLANATION BETWEEN LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY 20-22 September 2021 The topic of the conference is the study of the notion of explanation in the context of logic and philosophy. Particular attention will be devoted to the history of the investigation on explanation, to the connections with conceptual and metaphysical grounding, and to related philosophical issues such as logical pluralism and anti-exceptionalism about logic. The conference is organised in the framework of the ANR JCJC project Bolzano's Insights, https://bolzano-insights.com/. The conference will be held online through Zoom and will be open to anyone who is interested. We invite submissions on any subject connected to the notion of formal explanation in logic and in philosophy. A title and abstract (max. 750 words together with 2 or 3 keywords) should be submitted before the 30 June 2021 via an e-mail to Francesco A. Genco at the address frgenco [at] gmail [dot] com. Notifications will be sent out by 15 July 2021. Keynote speakers: - Fabrice Correia (University of Geneva, Switzerland) - Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University, Israel) - Ole Hjortland (University of Bergen, Norway) - Carrie Jenkins (University of British Columbia, Canada) For more information, please visit the webpage of the conference: https://bolzano-insights.com/445-2/ Sincerely, Francesco A. Genco On behalf of the organizing committee: Francesca Poggiolesi - IHPST (UMR 8590), CNRS and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Francesco A. Genco - IHPST (UMR 8590), CNRS and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne --------------- The conference is organized in the context of the project INSIGHTS FROM BOLZANO (IBS) ANR-18-CE27-0012-01 https://bolzano-insights.com/ The project is funded by l?Agence Nationale de Recherche and hosted by IHPST (UMR 8590) Principal Investigator: Francesca Poggiolesi The three main aims of the project are: to elaborate a general account of grounding in the conceptual sciences, based on Bolzano?s insights; to unify the debate on grounding and mathematical explanation; to unify the debate on grounding and causation. --------------- -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam