{"id":7856,"date":"2021-08-31T22:09:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T21:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-seminar-12\/"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T17:39:13","slug":"metaphysics-seminar-12","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/metaphysics-seminar-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysics Seminar Francesca Poggiolesi (Univeristy of Paris)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: arial, sans-serif\">Abstract: When it comes to the question of\u00a0what\u00a0proofs serve for, since the antiquity\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: arial, sans-serif\">two possible answers have been identified: on the one hand, a proof can serve to show that something is true,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: arial, sans-serif\">on the other hand, a proof can also serve to explain why something is true. The first type of proofs are called &#8220;proofs-that&#8221;, whilst\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: arial, sans-serif\">the latter &#8220;proofs-why&#8221; or &#8220;explanatory proofs&#8221;. A great part of the logic of the XX century has been dedicated to the formalization and the development of proofs-that, leaving untouched the analysis of proofs-why.\u00a0 In this talk we will try to fill this gap and explore the realm of explanatory proofs. We will offer a formalization of explanatory proofs and we will attempt to show what type of results\u00a0<\/span>can be obtained with such a formalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of\u00a0what\u00a0proofs serve for, since the antiquity\u00a0two possible answers have been identified: on the&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-7856","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\/7856","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8220,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7856\/revisions\/8220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}