Grounding and Truthmaking Workshop

You are warmly invited to a workshop on "Grounding and Truthmaking: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives", which will be held at Central European University in Vienna on Monday, June 30 to Wednesday, July 2, 2025. 

The aim of the workshop is to bring together leading scholars working on the topics of grounding and truthmaking, both in contemporary philosophy and in the history of philosophy.

We have a fantastic lineup of speakers who will be approaching the conference theme from a diverse array of perspectives, including ancient philosophy, non-Western philosophy, analytic metaphysics, logic, and social philosophy. Our speakers include Louis deRosset (Vermont), Kit Fine (NYU), Aaron Griffith (William and Mary), Marko Malink (NYU), Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS), Christof Rapp (LMU), Mike Raven (Victoria), Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers), Benjamin Schnieder (Vienna), Naomi Thompson (Bristol), Alice van’t Hoff (Vienna), Anubav Vasudevan (Chicago), and Jennifer Wang (SFU).

Monday, June 30

9:45 - 10 AM: Welcome and logistics

10 - 11:30 AM: Christof Rapp (LMU): Grounding and Truthmaking in Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics

11:30 - 11:45 AM: Coffee break

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM: Jennifer Wang (SFU): A Social Constructionist Account of Rén (仁) in the Analects

1:15 - 2:45 PM: Lunch

2:45 - 4:15 PM: Marko Malink (NYU) and Anubav Vasudevan (Chicago): Truthmaker Semantics for Aristotle's Syllogistic

4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee break

4:30 - 6 PM: Kit Fine (NYU): Generic Truthmaking

Tuesday, July 1

10 - 11:30 AM: Louis deRosset (UVM): Truthmakers and Propositional Identity

11:30 - 11:45 AM: Coffee break

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM: Alice van’t Hoff (Vienna): Truthmakers for Higher-Order Quantification

1:15 - 2:45 PM: Lunch

2:45 - 4:15 PM: Aaron Griffith (William & Mary): Truthmaking and Grounding in Social Ontology

4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee break

4:30 - 6 PM: Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers): Settling the Question, Grounding the Answer

Wednesday, July 2

10 - 11:30 AM: Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS): Conceptual Explanations in Logic and Mathematics

11:30 - 11:45 AM: Coffee break

11:45 AM - 1:15 PM: Mike Raven (Victoria): Grounding Explanations: Worldly, Unworldly, and Both?

1:15 - 2:45 PM: Lunch

2:45 - 4:15 PM: Naomi Thompson (Bristol): Social Construction as Social Explanation

4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee break

4:30 - 6 PM: Benjamin Schnieder (Vienna): TBA

For more information, please visit the CEU Events page (link is below). The workshop is open to all, but registration is required by June 20th. Please register by the link in the right side.

The main organizer of the workshop is Asya Passinsky (CEU). The assistant organizer is Javad Hajialikhani (CEU). The workshop is part of Knowledge in Crisis, a Cluster of Excellence supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). If you have any questions, please contact Javad at [email protected]