{"id":11401,"date":"2024-03-28T00:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T00:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-francesca-poggiolesi-centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique\/"},"modified":"2024-04-10T02:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T01:52:57","slug":"metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-francesca-poggiolesi-centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-and-logic-seminar-francesca-poggiolesi-centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics and Logic Seminar: Francesca Poggiolesi (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">Title: <strong>Explanations in logic<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">Abstract: To explain phenomena in the world is a central human activity and one of the main <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">goals of rational inquiry. There are several types of explanation: one can explain <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">by drawing an analogy, as one can explain by dwelling on the causes (e.g. see <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">Woodward (2004)). Amongst these different kinds of explanation, in the last decade <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">philosophers have become receptive to those explanations which explain by providing <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">the\u00a0<i>reasons why<\/i> a statement is true; these explanations are often called conceptual <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">explanations (e.g. see Betti (2010), Huneman (2018)). The main aim of the paper is\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">to propose a\u00a0<\/span>logical account of conceptual explanations. We will do so by using the resources of <span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">proof theory, in particular the sequent calculus. The results we provide not only shed <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">light on conceptual explanations themselves, but also on the role that logic and logical <\/span><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif\">tools might play in the burgeoning field of inquiry concerning explanations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Explanations in logic Abstract: To explain phenomena in the world is a central human activity and one of the main goals of rational inquiry. There are several types of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[25],"class_list":["post-11401","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-metaphysics-and-logic-group","cat_metaphysics-and-logic-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/11401\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}