Francesca Poggiolesi

Plenary Speaker in International Conferences and Schools

SNS Summer School, 18-20 June 2026, Pise, Italy.
Winter School on Formal Methods for Philosophy 2026, 2-6 February 2026, Urbino, Italy.
Colloquium Logicum 2024, 7-9 October 2024, Vienne, Austria.
Rencontres doctorales Internationales en philosophie des sciences, 19-20 Septembre 2024, Lyon, France
Logic Colloquium, 5-9 June 2023, Milan, Italy.
WoLLIC 2022, 20-23 September 2022, Iasi, Romania.
Advances in Modal Logic 2022, 22-25 August 2022, Rennes, France.
SLSS2022, 17-19 June 2022, Bergen, Norway.
Proof-theoretic semantics, 27-30 March 2019, Tubingen, Germany
UNILOG, 16-26 June 2018, Vichy, France
PhD Logic X, 1-4 May 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
Philosophy of mathematics: objectivity, cognition, and proof, 29-31 May 2014, Milan, Italy
Hypothetical reasoning, 23-24 August 2014, Tubingen, Germany

Invited Presentations in Seminars and Worksh

"Logique et mathématique : comprendre et expliquer", Les soirées Philosophie, Science et Société à la Sorbonne, 14 october 2025.
"Applications of conceptual explanations: Large language models and mathematics", Explaining explaining Workshop, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1-3 September 2025.
"Laying the groundwork: conceptual and formal apparatus of conceptual explanations", Explaining explaining Workshop, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1-3 September 2025.
"Conceptual explanations in logic and mathematics," Grounding and Truth-making: historical and contemporary perspectives, Central European University, Vienna, Austria, 30 June-2 July 2025.
"PhD and post-doc opportunities in France," SIFA Early Career Development (SEeD), Bologna, Italy, 19-20 June 2025.
"Revealing reasons: from philosophy to AI," Luci Seminar, Milan University, 28 May 2025.
" Explanatory Proofs: from Logics to Mathematics," Women in Logic (WIL) Seminar, Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms, 24 January 2025.
"An Introduction to the Notions of Explanation and Grounding, and an Analysis of Their Links," ENS, Paris, France, 19 December 2024.
"Explaining with reasons: fro Aristotle to explainable AI," PLEXUS Workshop, ENS, Paris, France, 18 December 2024.
"Explanations in Logic," Workshop - Language and the cognitive niche: representation, inference, expression, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 11-13 December 2024.
"Explaining with reasons: fro Aristotle to explainable AI," Jean Nicod centenary, IJN, Paris, France, 18-19 November 2024.
"Conceptual (and hence mathematical) explanations, conceptual grounding, and proof," Grounding and metaphysics workshop, Fribourg, Switzerland, 29-30 July 2024.
"A new model for mathematical explanations," Philosophy of mathematics workshop, Paris, France, 27-28 June 2024.
"Explaining with reasons: fro Aristotle to explainable AI," Lugano Seminar, Lugano, Switzerland, 17 May 2024.
TBA, EUROPHIL Seminar, Bologna, Italy, 10 May 2024.
"(Conceptual) explanations in logic,", Metaphysics and Logic Seminar Series, St. Andrews, Scotland, 10 April 2024.
"(Conceptual) explanations in logic," Logic and theory of decision seminar, MCMP, Munich, Germany, 30 November, 2023.
"Explanations in first-order logic," FINO Graduate Conference, 28-29 September 2023, Vercelli, Italy.
"New apporach to grounding and granularity," Hambourg Logical Workshop, Hambourg, Germany, 23-25 March 2023.
"Conceptual explanations and conceptual grounding: it is not complicated!" Perspectives on Logic and Philosophy Bochum Workshop, Bochum, Germany, 9-11 January 2023.
"Conceptual explanations and conceptual grounding: it is not complicated!" ExLog2022, Leuven, Belgium, 11-15 July 2022.
"A logical analysis of conceptual grounding," Logical Form Conference, Milan University, 10 June, 2022.
"A novel approach to mathematical explanations," "Workshop on mathematical explanation and understanding," Brussel, Belgium, 16 January, 2022.
"Tree-hypersequents or nested sequents: a survey", CUNY Graduate center, 8 December 2021.
"Explanatory proofs: philosophical framework, core ideas, results," St. Andrews, 29 November, 2021.
"Grounding principles for implication", LIRA seminar, 10 October 2021.
"Defining explanations in classical logic via substructural derivability"CIE Conference, Proof Theory Workshop, 5 July 2021.
"Mathematical explanations: an analysis via proofs and complexity," EXPRESS-IHPST Workshop: Proof, Truth and Communincation, 21-22 June 2021.
"Explanatory proofs: philosophical framework, core ideas, results," Louvain-la-Neuve on-line seminar, Belgium, 3 February 2021.
"Explanatory proofs: philosophical framework, core ideas, results,"Utrecht on-line seminar, Netherlands, 26 January 2021.
"Grounding principles for (relevant) implication" Workshop in honor of G. Sundholm, Paris, France, 12-14 June 2019.
"Explanations in logic and mathematics," Spiegare il mondo Workshop , Venice, Italy, 30 May 2019.
"Grounding principles for relevant implication," Explaining explanations Workshop , Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium, 6-7 May 2019.
"When grounding meets proof-theory," Non-Causal Explanation LLP Perspectives Workshop, Gand, Belgium, 8-10 May 2019.
"An introduction to grounding," Venice Weekly Seminar, Venice, Italy, 20 February, 2019.
"A proof theoretical approach to non-causal explanation: complexity as the key to directionality," EXPRESS seminar, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 20 November 2018.
"Logic of grounding, an alternative approach" VII Workshop on Philosophical Logic, Buenos-Aires, Argentina, August 1-3 2018.
"Applying proof theory to non-causal explanation: from cut-elimination to complexity," Oxford Wadham College seminar, Oxford, UK, 6 July 2018.
"Logic and philosophy of science: when proof theory met grounding," Journée d'étude à Paris 7, Paris, France, 18 June 2018.
"Developing Bolzano's insights : an alternative approach to the logic of grounding", Paris-Stockholm Workshop, ENS, Paris, France, 2-3 November 2017
"What characterises non-causal explanations? An answer through the notion of grounding", Unifying the Debate Workshop, Paris, France, 28-29 June 2017
"Bolzano, the appropriate relevant logic and grounding rules for implication", HEPI seminar, Paris, France, 16 March 2017
"Logic of grounding: an alternative approach", MMexplanation Workshop, Paris, France, 1-2 February 2017
"What is grounding?", MathObRe Seminar, Nancy, France, 7 November 2016
"Hierarchy and derivability as two key ingredients of formal grounding", Paris 1- Paris 7 Seminar, Paris, France, 17 June 2016
"Bolzano, the (appropriate) relevant logic and implication", History of grounding Workshop, Helsinki, Finland, 6-7 June 2016
"A rigorous definition of the notion of formal grounding", Scuola Normale weekly seminar, Pise, Italy, 21 April 2015
"Sul definire le prove analitiche del perché", Bologna weekly seminar, Bologna, Italy, 12 March 2015
"Sul definire le prove analitiche del perché", Analitico-sintetico: dalla filosofia alla teoria dell'informazione, Ferrara, Italy, 10 October 2014
"On defining and formalizing the notion of formal grounding", Ground and existence workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, 23-25 September 2014
"Counterfactual logics: natural deduction and sequent calculi", Phd and Post-doc seminar, Paris, France, 29 April 2014
"An alternative proof-theoretical approach to standard conditional logics", LogiCIC/LIRa seminar, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 26 March 2014
"A brief history of proof theory for modal logic", Cogito Workshop, Padua, Italy, 12 September 2013
"Are the validities of modal logic analytic? Or analyticity again through proof, information and Hintikka", Logic in Question Conference, Paris, France, 3 May 2013
"Analytic logic of proofs", IBISC Seminar, Evry, France, 28 February 2013
"Are the validities of modal logic analytic? Or analyticity again through proof, information and Hintikka", Paris-Munich workshop, Munich, Germany, 7-8 February 2013
"Are the validities of modal logic analytic? ", Florence Seminar of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Florence, Italy, 14 February 2012
"Analytic logic of proofs", Workshop on Cross Perspectives on Proof systems and their Significance, ENS, Paris, France, 3 May, 2012
"What is a good sequent calculus?", PHILMATH seminar, Paris, France, 24 January 2011
"Proof Theory for S5 and Its Extensions", IRIT-LILaC Seminar, Toulouse, France, 17 December 2010
"On the Importance of Being Analytic", Workshop on the Theory of Information, Brussels, Belgium, 18-19 November 2010
"Raisonnement Hypothétique", Three Days ANR-DFG Workshop, Berlin, Germany, 5-7 May 2010
"Cut-free and Normalised Logic of Proofs", Florence-Pisa-Siena Logic Workshop, Florence, Italy, 16 April 2010
"Cut-free and Normalised Logic of Proofs", GROLOG Colloquium, Groningen, Netherlands, 18 March 2010
"GL and S5 systems from a proof-theoretical point of view", Philosophy seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, U.S.A, 21 April 2009
"S5 and PDL systems from a proof-theoretical point of view", Oxford seminar, Oxford, England, 27-29 October 2008
"Tree-hypersequent calculi for propositional dynamic logic", Annual meeting Florence-Irvine, Florence, Italy, 18-19 September, 2008
"The tree-hypersequent method for modal propositional logic", AILA Conference, Genova, Italy, 20-23 February 2008
"The tree-hypersequent calculi for modal propositional logic", Seminar of the Research Group for Theoretical Computer Science and Logic of the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 4-6 April 2007
"The tree-hypersequent calculi for modal propositional logic", Annual meeting Florence-Irvine, Irvine, Los Angeles, U.S.A, 23-24 March 2007
"The tree-hypersequent calculi for modal propositional logic", Florence Seminar, Florence, Italy, 9 March 2007
"A new sequent calculus for modal logic", Philform seminar, Paris, France, 4 April 2006
"Trois solutions au Pardadoxe du Connaissant", Cycles de Conférences de Philosophie de l'Université de Genève, Geneve, Switzerland, 11 November 2006

Presentations (with committee)

"Mathematical explanations: an analysis via proof and complexity," (together with F. Genco) Sixth International Meeting of the AMPM, on-line, 30 June -3 July 2021.
"Grounding, quantifiers, and paradoxes" (together with F. Genco) , 9th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy, on-line, 6-9 July 2021.
"Grounding and quantifiers in the light of Bolzano's intuitions," (together with F. Genco) EPSA, Utrecht, Netherlands, 24-28 August 2020.
"Applying proof theory to non-causal explanation: from cut-elimination to complexity," MuST Conference 11, Turin, Italy, 11-13 June 2018.
"Hierarchy and derivability as two key ingredients of formal grounding", ITAONT Workshop, Padova, Italy, 27-29 June 2016
"Logic of grounding: an alternative approach", RWLG Workshop, Oslo, Norway, 5-6 June, 2014
"An alternative proof-theoretical approach to standard conditional logics", AILA conference, Pise, Italy, 16 March 2014
"Are the truths of modal logic analytic? Or the analyticity again through modal logic, Hintikka, Quine", SILFS Conference, Milan, Italy, 17-19 November 2012
"On the Importance of Being Analytic", Workshops in Philosophy of Mathematics, ANR Ideals of Proofs, Paris, France, 17-19 November 2010
"Towards a Satisfying Proof Analysis of the Logic of Proofs", LogKCA Conference, San Sebastiàn-Donosti, Spain, 3-5 November 2010
"Analytic Logic of Proofs", LPAR 17th Conference, Analytic Proof System Workshop,Yogyakarta,Indonesia, 10-15 October 2010
"Cut-free and Normalised Logic of Proofs", LRR10 Conference, Ghent, Belgium, 20-22 September 2010
"Two cut-free sequent calculi for modal logic S5", Workshop and Young Researcher Days, Brussel, Belgium, 1-2 September 2008
"The eliminability criterion for anti-realistic definitions. The case of logical rules for the necessity operator", ESAP6, Krakow, Poland, 21-26 August 2008
"Two cut-free sequent calculi for modal logic S5", SILFS Conference, Milan, Italy, 8-10 October 2007
“A new definition of the Došen’s principle”, 21st International Symposium Logica, Hejnice Monastery, Prague, Czech Republic, 18-22 June 2007
"Ricerche in Logica Modale", XVII Convegno Nazionale dei Dottori di Ricerca in Filosofia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 4-7 December 2006
“A New Sequent Calculus for Modal Logic”, Studia Logica International Conference, Towards Mathematical Philosophy, Trends in Logic IV, Torun, Poland, 1-4 September 2006
“Sequent Calculus for Modal Logic”, Logic Colloquium 2006, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 27 July – 2 August, 2006
"A Criticism of Anderson's Solution to the Knower Paradox. Towards a Provability Solution", ESAP5, Lisbon, Portugal, 27-31 August 2005