Three philosophers had been among the many recipients of multi-million-euro grants from the European Analysis Council (ERC).
They and their initiatives are:
- Guido Bacciagaluppi (College of Utrecht)
Niels Bohr for the twenty first Century
The undertaking will deal with the legacy of Niels Bohr (1885–1962), aiming to ascertain a transparent and unbiased understanding of Bohr’s concepts, which have implications for not solely the philosophy of physics, biology and different sciences. The undertaking will collaborate with the Niels Bohr Archive in Copenhagen.
- Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (College of Copenhagen)
Ladies within the Nordic Enlightenment: Altering the narratives of early fashionable philosophy and uncovering girls’s contribution to Scandinavian gender equality
€2.4 million
The undertaking will deliver to mild and critically assess girls’s mental contribution to the Nordic Enlightenment. This will likely be performed by analyzing a wealthy textual content corpus consisting of unpublished materials and printed texts written by girls in Scandinavia, which has been largely missed in customary accounts of the event of early fashionable thought. This investigation will serve two additional targets. Firstly, this undertaking will change our view of the Nordic Enlightenment, and, as a consequence, of the Enlightenment undertaking as such. It’ll thereby emend the historic account of a decisive chapter of Europe’s previous and permit for a re-interpretation of what the Enlightenment entails and of its attribute options. Secondly, this undertaking will reveal girls’s contribution to the event of Scandinavian gender equality through the Early Trendy interval. It’ll make seen girls’s contribution to the emergence of gender equality at an earlier stage than normally assumed.
- Genia Schönbaumsfeld (College of Southampton)
The Ethics of Doubt – Kierkegaard, Scepticism and Conspiracy Idea
€2.5 million
Whereas the traditional sceptics regarded scepticism about information as a lifestyle, philosophers from Descartes to the current day have considered it primarily as an mental drawback that requires solely a theoretical resolution. This undertaking intends to problem this widespread assumption by focussing on a determine virtually solely missed by mainstream epistemology: Søren Kierkegaard.
Core goals of the undertaking are: (a) To deliver Kierkegaard’s existential epistemology into dialogue with the up to date mainstream, specifically in respect to the relation between the mental vices, reminiscent of an absence of mental braveness, and numerous types of scepticism. (b) To look at the similarities between radical scepticism and international conspiracy theories. Since radical scepticism is taken very critically in epistemology, whereas conspiracy theories are typically dismissed, this raises the questions: If one thing is improper with international conspiracy theories, is one thing equally improper with radical scepticism? Conversely, if we can not dismiss radical scepticism, can we equally not dismiss international conspiracy theories? (c) To use Kierkegaard’s perception that information requires braveness to a central problem of our time: lack of religion in information, experience and authority. By no means has such an investigation been extra urgent than within the present pandemic, which has given rise to an unprecedented surge in conspiracy theories and ‘pretend information’.
In complete, the ERC awarded €544 million in beginning grants. You may study extra in regards to the grants and see an entire record of the winners here.
