Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

DIAPHORA

Duration: 2016 - 2019

Code: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675415

Principal Investigator

Sven Rosenkranz (rosenkranz.sven@gmail.com)

All researchers

Teresa Marques (U. Barcelona)
Manuel García-Carpintero (U. Barcelona)
Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA-UB)
Genoveva Martí (ICREA-UB)
Esa Díaz-León (U. Barcelona)
José Antonio Díez (U. Barcelona)
Carl Hoefer (ICREA-UB)
Josep Macià (U. Barcelona)
José Martínez (U. Barcelona)
Michele Palmira (U. Complutense Madrid)
Josefa Toribio (ICREA-UB)
Matheus Valente
Lisa Vogt

Scientists in charge:

Sven Rosenkranz (ICREA-UB, coordinator)

Fabrice Correia (University of Neuchâtel)
Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP/University of Munich)
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (University of Stockholm)
Duncan Pritchard (EIDYN/University of Edinburgh)
Francois Recanati (CNRS/École Normale Supérieure)
Crispin Wright (University of Stirling/New York University)

 

Local team members:

Esa Díaz-León (UB)

José Díez (UB)

Manuel García-Carpintero (UB)

Carl Hoefer (ICREA-UB)

Max Kölbel (ICREA-UB)

Josep Macià (UB)

Teresa Marques (UB)

Genoveva Martí (ICREA-UB)

Pepe Martínez (UB)

Josefa Toribio (ICREA-UB)

Matheus Valente (UB)

Lisa Vogt (UB)

Indrek Reiland (UB)

Michele Palmira (UB)

Summary

DIAPHORA serves as a European research and training platform for collaborative research on the nature of philosophical problems, their resilience and the sources of persistent divergence of expert opinion about them, and their relation to conflicts in the practical sphere. More specifically, DIAPHORA’s 3 principal research objectives are (A) to diagnose what makes philosophical problems so resilient and to clarify to what extent the sustained lack of convergence in philosophy can successfully be explained by the hardness of its problems; (B) to explain why the tendency has not been towards a general agnosticism about candidate solutions, but rather towards divergence, and to identify features of philosophical method that allow for such persistent peer disagreement; and (C) to explore whether the dynamics of philosophical debate, despite the subject’s highly theoretical nature, bears important and instructive resemblances to the dynamics of debates about more practical matters and their political and socio-economical antecedents – and hence whether philosophical problems and their attempted resolution can illuminate, and be illuminated by, the procedural and methodological difficulties besetting strategies for the adjudication of public affairs, thereby determining what philosophical thought might contribute to society at large. DIAPHORA joins 7 leading European research centres in philosophy, and 5 partner organisations, 3 of which from the nonacademic sector, in the fields of international conflict management, mediation and policy-making, as well as the analysis of social conflict and cultural diversity. It undertakes to provide 14 Early Stage Researchers with the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the demands of top-level research within its remit, as well as professional complementary skills training in both the academic and non-academic sectors, with the goal of widening their potential societal contributions and improving their individual career prospects.

Total budget: €3670854
14 Early Stage Researchers (of whom 2 recruited by the UB)

Webpage:

http://www.ub.edu/diaphora/

 

Publications