BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2017/newsitem/9488/14- --16-December-2017-Mathematical-Metaphysical-Expla nation-II-Explanation-Grounding-Dependance-Pavia-I taly DTSTAMP:20171120T143201 SUMMARY:Mathematical & Metaphysical Explanation II : Explanation, Grounding & Dependance, Pavia, Ita ly DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171214 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171216 LOCATION:Pavia, Italy DESCRIPTION:The last decade has witnessed an incre asing interest in two related notions, the notion of metaphysical explanation, or grounding, and the notion of mathematical explanation. Grounding is often described as a relation in which explanans and explanandum are connected, not through some sort of causal mechanism, but through some consti tutive form of determination. Mathematical explana tions, on the other hand, are seen as mathematica l proofs that not only prove that something is tru e, but also why something is true. After a fir st meeting aimed at taking a first step towards br idging these two areas of investigation, the works hop aims at further deepening our understanding of the connections between mathematical explanation, grounding, and metaphysical dependance, exploring in particular the relationship between grounding and recent views of mathematical explanation, the role of metaphysical dependance in the debate on i ndispensability argument, and the application of m etaphysical and conceptual grounding to abstractio n principles in the foundations of mathematics. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n