Workshop: The Metaphysics of Grounding

Workshop The Metaphysics of Grounding

April 29, 2016 – April 30, 2016
The workshop is under the auspices of the Grounding – Metaphysics, Science, Logic project funded by the Swiss National Fund (SNF).
Organized by Benjamin Schnieder (Hamburg) and Martin Grajner (Dresden).
Please register informally at .

Friday, April 29

2:00 to 2:10 pm        Introduction to the Workshop 
2:10 to 3:20                          Benjamin Schnieder “Grounding: Compactness, Sufficiency, and Beyond”
3:20 to 3:30               Coffee Break
3:30 to 4:40               Giovanni Merlo “Irrelevant Disjuncts”
4:40 to 4:50               Coffee Break
4:50 to 6:00               Lorenzo Casini “Grounds and Biological Functions: A Meta-Analysis”
6:00 to 6:10              Coffee Break
6:10 to 7:20              Roberto Loss “Grounding, Grounding, and Partial Grounding”
                                   Dinner

Saturday, April 30

10:00 to 11:10 am    Alex Skiles “Grounding, Essence, and Identity”
11:10 to 11:20           Coffee Break
11:20 to 12:30           Tobias Wilsch “Grounding and the Modal Force of Explanation”
12:30 to 2:00             Lunch
2:00 to 3:10               Mark Jago “From Nature to Grounding”
3:10 to 3:20              Coffee Break
3:20 to 4:30               Martin Grajner “Toward a Reductive Theory of Grounding”
                                   Dinner