CFP: Recent Work on the Logic of Ground

Deadline for abstracts, December 1, 2013.

There are two slots for contributed papers. If you’re interested in
contributing a paper please send an extended abstract of no more than 1000 words and suitable for blind review to Lina Tosterud at 

[email protected]

by December 1, 2013. Please use “Logic of Ground” in the subject field.

If you have questions about workshop, please direct them to Jon Litland

[email protected]

Topics for the contributed papers may include:

- How should grounding be expressed? By means of grounding relations? By
means of sentential operators?
- The problem of “grounding grounding”: if A grounds B, what grounds that (A
grounds B)?
- Prospects for an impure logic of ground
- Prospects for a logic of immediate ground
- Prospects for, and limits of, Fine’s truthmaker semantics
- Quantification into grounding-claims: both first-order quantification and
quantification into sentence position
- Barcan and Converse Formulae for grounding
- Grounding negative claims and grounding universal claims
- Are coreferential terms substitutable salva veritate in grounding
contexts?
- Can what is grounded be irreducibly plural?
- Grounding and metaphysical modality
- Grounding and tense
- What’s the importance of the notion of weak ground?