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HUM
2006-08236/FISO (C-CONSOLIDER)
Main Researcher
Manuel
García-Carpintero
Summary
This project
belongs in a new modality of research funding started by the DGI, MEC on 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. The
members of the group include two subgroups, one in Valencia and another in
Barcelona; the Valencia group is coordinated by Josep Corbí, and includes in
addition: José Luis Pérez López, Vicente Raga Rosaleny, Julián Marrades Millet,
José Luis Prades Celma, Fernando Broncano Rodríguez. Berta Pérez Rodríguez,
Gianfranco Soldati, Christine Tappolet, Jennifer Saul; the Barcelona group is
coordinated by Genoveva Martí, and includes in addition: José Martínez
Fernández, Francesc Pereña Blasi, Sven Rosenvranz, Luis Robledo, Adèle Mercier,
Max Kölbel. Manuel García-Carpintero is the general coordinator.
The Valencia group plans to explore some central aspects of the notion of agent,
in order to increase our understanding of the place of a subject in the world
that sciences discover and, consequently, our understanding of the resources to
which an agent may legitimately appeal to articulate his response to the
Socratic question 'How should one live?'. To this purpose, they intend to
contribute to three contemporary debates which are crucial to our understanding
of practical deliberation and its implications for the identity of the self.
More specifically, (a) the debate about personal identity, (b) the debate about
self-knowledge and (c) the debate about moral particularism. The Barcelona group
intends to analyze practical deliberation in connection to the debate on the
relativisation of truth and the study of a practical case. Some philosophers (like
Max Kolbel, John MacFarlane and Mark Richard) claim that truth for propositions
or for utterances must be relativised in order to explain certain semantic
phenomena: vagueness, epistemic modals or the evaluative discourse used in
practical reasoning. The main goal of the first part of the project is to
provide a foundational theory for this kind of proposals. The results obtained
will be applied to the clarification of the evaluative disputes, specially the
moral ones. The second part will explore the results obtained in relation ta a
practical case: the discussion on the moral challenges brought up by the new
reproduction techniques. They intend to reflect on subrogation cases to examine
the concepts of father and mother. |