Against the common preconception that philosophy is an activity to be carried out by isolated individuals, in fact it has been repeatedly established that it improves exponentially when carried out in collaborative environments. In them researchers meet regularly to discuss the state of the art in their subdisciplines (examining work-in-progress produced by themselves or by other researchers with common interests), attend presentations of original material by researchers on any philosophical topic, attend and organize focused workshops aimed at appraising topics of current interest, host visits by significant researchers in other institutions, and make use of such an environment to jointly train for the next generation well-selected early stage researchers. The groups that obtained the only philosophy project among the 72 awarded in the unfortunately terminated CONSOLIDER-INGENIO framework, PERSP (CSD2009-0056), were already well established at the time of the application. In part this was thanks to the Catalan institution ICREA, which allowed them to incorporate top international researchers. However, the synergies facilitated by the project have taken their outputs several steps forward, in accordance with the pattern just described. The main goal of this application is to keep these highly successful synergies operating at base level, while a new opportunity for obtaining a substantive amount of funding like that provided by the previous project shows itself, and identifying a new topic of research in anticipation of such an eventuality.
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Williamson on Defining Knowledge
Episteme. A Journal of Individual and Social Epistemology 19/22, pp. 286-302. DOI: 10.1017/epi.2020.27. (URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/epi.2020.27). Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2020.
