The Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy (BIAP) has been awarded the María de Maeztu Prize by the Spanish authorities’s Ministry of Science and Innovation.
The prize contains official recognition for BIAP as a “unit of excellence” and a €2 million (roughly $2.12 million) grant to assist its analysis over the subsequent 5 years.
BIAP was the one institute within the humanities in Spain to have been awarded a María de Maeztu prize this yr. BIAP is comprised of researchers from the College of Barcelona, the College Pompeu Fabra, and the College of Girona, and the venture will contain researchers in any respect three establishments.
The research program the prize will assist is on the character and position of proof. It goals to:
1. discover and systematize the completely different roles, and scope, assigned to proof in quite a lot of well-defined contexts of enquiry,
2. develop a coherent general conception of the character of proof, and of evidential assist, throughout the aforementioned contexts of enquiry, synthesizing the outcomes obtained in pursuit of the primary principal analysis goal, and
3. decide the teachings to be drawn from this conception for the makes use of and roles that proof ought to have within the public sphere.
The inquiry is organized round 7 work packages:
You’ll be able to study extra concerning the analysis program here.
