Current Research Projects
| Name | Description | Keywords |
|---|---|---|
| Vice Epistemology |
AHRC funded: This project is about the nature and significance of 'intellectual vices', also known as 'epistemic vices'. Intellectual vices are character traits (e.g. closed-mindedness), attitudes (e.g. prejudice) or thinking styles (e.g. wishful thinking) that obstruct the acquisition, retention or transfer of knowledge. This project will examine the different varieties of intellectual vice and develop an original account of what makes them harmful. The extent to which intellectual vices are blameworthy will also be a central question. This project will also explore the real world impact of intellectual vices on areas such as politics, healthcare and policy implementation. An introduction to the topic of intellectual vices is available here |
Quassim Cassam |
| The Second Person Project | British Academy / Leverhulme Trust Funded - The aim of the project is to examine the connection between thought-theoretical questions about the relation between the meaning, sense and reference of ‘you’ and a variety of specific debates about the explanatory role of the second person in epistemology, ethics and psychology. | Naomi Eilan; Guy Longworth; Johannes Roessler |
| Rethinking the senses: uniting the philosophy and neuroscience of perception | AHRC Funded - The project will bring together philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists to work in an interdisciplinary and reciprocal way to develop an account of multisensory perception; and with others in the humanities and the arts – including artists, filmmakers, and musicians – to trace the consequences of this account for our wider understanding of the senses and our sensory experience. | Matthew Nudds |
| Time and Causalility in Cognitive Development | Leverhulme funded - This project is an interdisciplinary effort to examine how causal reasoning and time perception interact in development. It is led by Marc Buehner (Psychology, Cardiff) and involves two other psychologists (Teresa McCormack, QUB; David Lagnado, UCL) alongside Christoph Hoerl (Philosophy, Warwick). It is centred around empirical studies of the way beliefs about causal relations between two events can seemingly affect the perceived order in which these events happen, or the perceived temporal distance between them. These studies raise questions on several philosophical fronts - about the nature of our perception of duration and succession, the extent to which belief can influence perception, and ultimately also about the relation between time and causation itself. | Christoph Hoerl |
| Childhood and Adolescent Loneliness | The Independent Social Research Foundation - Kimberley Brownlee (Philosophy, University of Warwick) and Pamela Qualter (Psychology, University of Central Lancashire) will run an interdisciplinary research retreat in July 2016 to address conceptual, psychological, and ethical issues of childhood and adolescent loneliness. | Kimberley Brownlee |
| Sense of Commitment | ERC funded: Dr. John Michael has received a 5 -year ERC starting grant to investigate the Sense of Commitment. The project will develop a theoretical framework for research on the sense of commitment, and create a suite of experimental paradigms for testing predictions generated by the theoretical framework. | John Michael |
| Time: Between Metaphysics and Psychology | AHRC funded: An Interdisciplinary three-year project lead by Christoph Hoerl (Philosophy, Warwick) and Teresa McCormack (Psychology, Queen's University Belfast). The overarching aim of this project is to provide an empirically informed critical examination of the relationship between our everyday understanding of time, and time as typically understood within modern science. | Christoph Hoerl |
| Investigating the Ethics and Politics of Sociability | Leverhulme Trust Funded: The Sociability Project will explore the ethics and politics of sociability, including 1) key notions such as loneliness and the need to belong, which are well-established, but little-analysed ideas in psychology; 2) the duties we have to provide decent social contact to each other; 3) the interpersonal, social rights we may assert; 4) the virtues in being sociable; and 5) the value in being socially included. The Project will analyse the boundaries between social duty and virtue, and will apply an analysis of social rights, duties, and virtues to three specific areas of moral and political concern: 1) sociability and disability; 2) interspecies sociability; and 3) globalized sociability. | Kimberley Brownlee |
| Philosophy in a Time of Crisis | Meyer Foundation Funded: Philosophy in a Time of Crisis is a collective research project led by Professor Miguel de Beistegui, with the assistance of Dr. Amedeo Policante. Through a series of publications, a dedicated website, and conferences, PTC intends to promote philosophy as an essential tool to reflect upon the major crises and challenges of our time, and the meaning and nature of crisis itself. Initially, the focus of the project will be Europe, approached as a striated space traversed by interconnected points of crisis and by multiple margins that are continuously (re)generated, controlled and policed. Three converging thematic axes will be explored: 1) territory, borders, security; 2) processes of deterritorialisation; 3) precarious forms of life. Our first conference Margins of Europe: Thinking Borders Today will take place in Paris on the 14th and 15th of June, 2018. | Miguel Beistegui; Amedeo Policante |