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Medieval Philosophy in Modern History of Philosophy
ID615045FromJune 30, 2014toJune 30, 2019FunderEuropean CommissionMEMOPHI plans the first comprehensive study of how eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians of philosophy reconstructed medieval thought. Associating intellectual and cultural approaches, it investigates to what ends and how the history of medieval philosophy has been written, used and institut...The Only Free Science: Philosophy Without Presuppositions From Classical German Philosophy to Contemporary Philosophy
ID101152635FromAugust 31, 2025toAugust 31, 2027FunderEuropean CommissionTONES aims to explore the idea of philosophy as a presupposition-free science and to develop this idea as a new metaphilosophical paradigm that provides a theoretical underpinning for value-free science and prejudice-free judgment and. The idea of philosophy as a presuppositionless science (PLS) has...Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy
ID818343FromMarch 31, 2020toMarch 31, 2025FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUniversitat BayreuthThe project pioneers a multilingual approach to African philosophy, based on an understanding of philosophy as expressed through texts. In contrast to definitions of philosophical texts as non-fictional, written sources (Hountondji), we insist on a much more inclusive definition of “text”: both oral...Epistemic Optimism in Enlightenment Natural Philosophy : Metaphysics and Experimental Philosophy
ID748623FromAugust 31, 2017toAugust 31, 2019FunderEuropean CommissionFrom a methodological point of view, the history of the classical sciences is often presented as a triumphant march of experimentation anchored in the science of Newton and the Newtonians. The historiography of 18th-c. scientific methodology tends moreover to portray each form of persistence of meta...Philosophy of Dark Energy
ID101065772FromAugust 31, 2022toAugust 31, 2024FunderEuropean CommissionThe PhilDarkEnergy project proposes that the most dominant ingredient of our universe, dark energy, undermines the widely held assumption of a strict ontological trichotomy between spacetime, matter and constants of nature. Dark energy exhibits aspects of all three categories, rather than falling ne...Hegel's Philosophy of Biology
ID795947FromSeptember 30, 2018toApril 30, 2021FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUniversite Catholique De LouvainThe project addresses Hegel’s philosophical stance concerning the nature of organismic life, which in contemporaryterms might be defined as his philosophy of biology. It asks how Hegel assesses the ontological status of living organisms, the purposive features of living systems, and the relation bet...Philosophy of Social Physics
ID101107061FromOctober 1, 2023toOctober 1, 2025FunderEuropean Commission"""Philosophy of Social Physics"" (SOPHY) intends to explore the impact of physics on the genesis of the social sciences and to define the current use of “Social Physics” in the scientific discourse on big data related to crowd behaviors. The general hypothesis is that physical narratives and notion...Philosophy of Canonical Quantum Gravity
ID263523FromOctober 31, 2011toOctober 31, 2017FunderEuropean CommissionThis research proposal addresses from a philosophical perspective the greatest unsolved problem of theoretical physics, namely the formulation of a quantum theory of gravity. Quantum mechanics and general relativity are the two main revolutions of 20th century physics. These theories have radically...The Philosophy of Experiential Artifacts
ID101040535FromAugust 31, 2022toAugust 31, 2027FunderEuropean CommissionAncient Greeks used one word, techne, to designate both technical and artistic practices. It is only in modern times that art gained autonomy, becoming the object of one philosophical discipline: aesthetics. However, the emergence of mass media, and then of digital media, has brought art close to te...Number Cognition and Philosophy of Arithmetic
ID301470FromAugust 31, 2012toOctober 15, 2014FunderEuropean Commission"The presented research project is devoted to the concept of natural number. We will be studying this concept from two different perspectives: the philosophy of mathematics and cognitive sciences. The underlying hypothesis is that in general these two disciplines function independently and do not ex...Truth in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
ID101041853FromDecember 31, 2022toDecember 31, 2027FunderEuropean CommissionWhile it is sometimes suggested that we are living in a 'post-truth' age wherein the concept of truth is increasingly less relevant, truth nonetheless remains a central concept in science, ethics, and ordinary life. However, what precisely is truth? One common view, the so-called 'correspondence the...The Great War and Modern Philosophy
ID617659FromSeptember 30, 2014toSeptember 30, 2019FunderEuropean Commission"The First World War was an unprecedented event of destruction, transformation, and renewal that left no aspect of European culture unchanged. Philosophy proved no exception: the war motivated an historically singular mobilization of philosophers to write about the war during the years of conflict;...History and Philosophy in Science Teaching
ID217805FromJanuary 31, 2008toJuly 31, 2010FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorDeutsche Gesellschaft Fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (giz) GmbhIn order to develop a better integration of science in society and society in science the promotion of young people’s interest in science, to encourage their critical and creative ways of thinking and to improve science education, and the uptake of scientific careers in general is of vital importanc...Temporalities, Histories and Methods of Philosophy. Re-thinking the Canon of History of Philosophy and Political Thought
ID101152894FromAugust 31, 2025toAugust 31, 2028FunderEuropean Commission“Temporalities, Histories, and Methods of Philosophy” (THiMe) intends to contribute to the studies on the critique of the Western Canon, through specific reflection on the History of Philosophy and its political nature. The objective is to produce a new methodology of the History of Philosophy and P...Philosophy of COSMOlogy: Matter And SpaceTime ERadicated
ID101076402FromMarch 31, 2023toMarch 31, 2028FunderEuropean CommissionOur most basic, fundamental assumptions are often the ones that get scrutinised the least. This very much holds true for the primary ontological and conceptual distinction that underlies much of physics, philosophy of physics and metaphysics: the idea that all entities and structures in our universe...Forcing in Contemporary Philosophy of Set Theory
ID752211FromApril 30, 2017toApril 30, 2019FunderEuropean CommissionForcing is one of the defining techniques of modern set theory. As of late its extensive and deep mathematical results and related foundational questions gained wider attention in the international debate in the philosophy of mathematics. This can be witnessed by the recent development of different...Philosophy as Translation: Toward a Translational Education
ID101064906FromAugust 31, 2023toAugust 31, 2026FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUniversita Degli Studi Di Padova"The conviction at the heart of this project is that philosophy can no longer postpone systematic reflection on translation. This is not only due to a widespread ""translational turn"" in the humanities but because translation is at the core of Europe and of philosophy itself. In the European multil...Film-Philosophy as a Meditation on Death
ID101088956FromMay 31, 2023toMay 31, 2028FunderEuropean CommissionFILM AND DEATH defends the hypothesis that to film-philosophize is to learn to die. This will be achieved by rethinking the innovations that film brings to recent philosophies of death and the metaphysics of time. A new paradigm for understanding the relationship between film and philosophy is propo...Animals in the Philosophy of the Islamic World
ID786762FromSeptember 30, 2018toSeptember 30, 2023FunderEuropean CommissionAre animals conscious? Can they think or feel emotions? What makes them different from humans on the one hand and plants on the other? And how should we treat them?This project will bring to light a rich body of texts written in the Islamic world, which address just such questions about the value an...The Cosmic Soul: Renaissance Humanism and Natural Philosophy
ID252379FromAugust 31, 2010toAugust 31, 2012FunderEuropean CommissionI am proposing to spend two years at the Center for the History of Philosophy and Science (CHPS) at the Faculty of Philosophy of Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands). There, I propose to carry out a large research project and at the same time to acquire a number of new skills in the domains...Schelling’s philosophy of nature and the environmental challenge
ID101068328FromSeptember 30, 2022toSeptember 30, 2024FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorKatholieke Universiteit LeuvenThe contemporary environmental crisis has triggered a revival of discussions on the concept of nature. Among scientists, philosophers, policy makers and citizens questions regarding environmental practices and the overall state of nature have become a matter of central concern. But what exactly is n...Physiognomics as Philosophy: Reconceiving an Early Modern Science
ID101023861FromMay 14, 2021toOctober 14, 2023FunderEuropean CommissionMy project aims to uncover the hitherto unrecognised centrality of physiognomics within early modern philosophy. Physiognomics is the theory, stemming from Aristotle and other ancient sources, that body and soul are connected in such a way that it is possible to gain access to the soul by learning t...Polyphonic Philosophy: Logic in the Long Twelfth Century (c. 1070-1220) for a New Horizon in the History of Philosophy
ID101041596FromAugust 31, 2022toAugust 31, 2027FunderEuropean Commission"This project aims at an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to Latin logical commentaries from the Long Twelfth-Century (c. 1070-1220). My contention is that this little-explored topic presents us with a unique ""Polyphonic Philosophy"" that can open up a new horizon in our understanding of phil...Certainty in an Uncertain World: A Philosophy of Opinion
ID101067829FromJune 30, 2022toJune 30, 2024FunderEuropean CommissionThis research proposes to examine what comprises 'opinion' in today's world of instantaneous communication. How, might it be said, does thought lapse into opinion? It is an urgent question in a time when the world, with its modes of global interconnection and digital platforms, is so heavily charact...Philosophy of Pharmacology: Safety, Statistical standards and Evidence Amalgamation
ID639276FromMarch 31, 2015toMarch 31, 2020FunderEuropean CommissionCoordinatorUniversita Politecnica Delle Marche"The project intends addresses safety assessment in pharmacology with a view on philosophical work on causality and causal inference from statistical data ((Pearl 2000; Spirtes, Glymour, Scheines 2000, Woodward 2003, Cartwright, 2007b). This interest is motivated by the fact that current evidence st...