Event Detail

This small workshop is the first of two gatherings devoted to the theme of grounding. Although the debate in its contemporary form dates only to the beginning of the twenty-first century—often traced to Kit Fine’s 2001 paper, “The Question of Realism”—grounding has since become a well-established topic of philosophical inquiry. Its prominence is reflected in the dedicated entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and in the publication of the Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding. The aim of this workshop is straightforward. We will present a collection of papers that bring the concept of grounding into dialogue with the history of philosophy, including several non-European traditions. This ambition is twofold: first, to shed new light on historical texts and arguments by interpreting them through the lens of grounding; and second, to assess the philosophical fruitfulness of the notion itself by examining how effectively it operates across diverse historical contexts.