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International Workshop
Fundamental Things
A Workshop with Louis deRosset
JUNE 20, 2025
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Aula 2B
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
This workshop will focus on the central themes of Fundamental Things: Theory and Applications of Grounding (OUP, 2023) by Louis deRosset.
The event will feature the author alongside invited speakers, exploring key topics of the book such as grounding, fundamentality, and the layered structured of reality. A dedicated Q&A session with deRosset will allow attendees to engage directly with the author.
No registration is required.
The workshop will also be available to watch live through Microsoft Teams:
For further information, please get in touch with Giorgio Lando (giorgio.lando@univaq.it.) or Giorgio Mazzullo (giorgiomazzullo@gmail.com).
PROGRAM
9.30-9.45 Introduction
9.45-10.40 Louis deRosset (University of Vermont), “Ground and Fundamentality: Subterranean Notes”
10.40-11.35 Joaquim Giannotti (Universidad Mayor – Santiago), “The Elusive Distinction between Grounding and Causation”
11.35-12.05 Coffee Break
12.05-13.00 David Mark Kovacs (TAU), “Iterated Determination Questions”
Lunch
14.30-15.25 Kelly Trogdon (Virginia Tech), “Incompletable Grounding and Sparse Ontology”
15.25-16.20 Benjamin Schnieder (Universität Wien), “Grounds and Concepts”
16.20-16.50 Coffee Break
16.50-17.45 Yannic Kappes (Universität Wien), “Functors Solve the Connection Problem for Nonreductivism”
17.45-19.30 Questions & Answers on Louis deRosset, Fundamental Things, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2023, with the participation of the author
Discussants: Riccardo Baratella (Università di Genova), Donatella Donati (Università dell’Aquila), Simone Gozzano (Università dell’Aquila), Giorgio Lando (Università dell’Aquila), Giorgio Mazzullo (Università dell’Aquila), Fabio Patrone (Università di Padova)
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