Communication in Context
Communication in Context - Shared Understanding in a Complex World (PI4)
The project CCCOM investigates the nature and preconditions of communicative success in the complex communicative situation that is the human predicament. The overall objective is to develop a new theory of communicative success, one that explains how communication is possible despite the obstacles posed by the cultural and contextual differences that form the backdrop of human interaction. read more... |
Online Companion to Problems of Analytic Philosophy
Online Companion to Problems of Analytic Philosophy 2012-2015
FCT Project PTDC/FIL-FIL/121209/2010 (team member) The aim is to produce a volume titled A Companion to Problems of Analytical Philosophy, written in Portuguese and made available for free on the internet. The online edition will be dynamic, i.e. the material can be continuously updated. The volume consists of state of the art, specialized essays on problems in core areas of present Analytic Philosophy. The emphasis is placed on areas dealing with the nature of language, mind and cognition. The project will revolve around three broad domains: Mind and Cognition (Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, etc); Logic and Language (Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, etc); and Metaphysics (Ontology, Philosophy of Science, etc). |
Varieties of Truth, Varieties of Realism
Integrated Action LanCog, Univ. Lisbon & Logos, Univ. of Barcelona
2010-2011 (team member) The project seeks to join efforts in the two groups with the goal of providing a finer classification and evaluation of anti-realist options in different areas of contemporary debate (particularly discourse apparently about abstract objects, and moral and aesthetic evaluative or prescriptive discourse). The general objectives include:
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The Nature of Assertion: Consequences for Relativism and Fictionalism
Duration: 2011 - 2013. Code: FFI2010-16049 (team member)
Timothy Williamson’s 1996 paper „Knowing and Asserting“ reopened the interest in normative accounts of assertion, which had been in disfavour after Strawson’s influential Gricean criticism of Austin’s normative account. Williamson’s proposal has been the focus of ongoing discussion in the years since. The main goal of this project is to contribute to the goal of clarifying the nature of the speech act of assertion, and that of its internal mental correlate, judgment, by focusing on contemporary discussion of two related sets of issues: issues concerning proposals to relativize truth, and issues concerning seeming assertions involving apparent reference to fictional entities, and fictionalist proposals in general. Continue reading... |
Persp | perspectival thoughts and facts(team member)PERSP is a Spanish research and training network focusing on philosophical issues arising from the perspectival character of some thoughts and the facts they represent, funded by the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Scheme (CSD2009-00056), Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, to which four Spanish groups contribute: LOGOS, based at the Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat de Girona GRECC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Philosophy of Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de Girona Applied Philosophy, Universitat de València read more... |
C-project: Truth, Semantic Confusion and Embodiment
Duration: 2006 - 2011 Code: HUM 2006-08236/FISO (C-CONSOLIDER) (team member)
This project belongs in a new modality of research funding started by the DGI, MEC (Spain) in 2006, aimed to provide a more stable funding to groups which have been getting regularly ordinary three-year research projects in the past ten to fifteen year, in our case for projects on specific issues in contemporary analytic philosophy of language, logic and cognition. The funding is not provided for a specific project, but under a commitment to improve the relevant parameters in the next five years, number of publications and management of research activities. Continue reading... |
