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Current  and recent research projects include:

The Limits and Scope of Mathematical Knowledge is a Templeton Foundation funded project that will investigate the scope and limits of mathematical knowledge, using theoretical tools from mathematics and philosophy. The project leaders are Leon Horsten and Philip Welch.

The Foundations of Structuralism project will investigate the logical foundations of structuralist theories in mathematics and physics, and aims to integrate work done in each of these disciplines. The principal investigator for the project is James Ladyman, with co-investigators Leon Horsten and Oystein Linnebo.

Experimental Philosophy "X-phi” applies the methods of experimental psychology to the study of intuitions.

Territory and Justice Network is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. It aims to to develop a bi-lateral network of Irish and UK researchers on the topic, "Theories of Territory: Resource Rights, Global Justice, and Self-Determination".

Research Theme "Science, Knowledge, and Reality"  The University of Bristol supports, as one of its chosen Research Themes, this theme which concerns foundational questions in the philosophies of the sciences and the relationship between science and the humanities.

AHRC Evolution, Co-operation and Rationality project. A three year AHRC project commencing in October 2008 led by Professors Samir Okasha and Ken Binmore. The project addresses the philosophical implications of recent work in evolutionary biology on the topics of co-operation, social behaviour and the conflict between individual and group interests.

AHRC Metaphysics of Science project. This research project, with centres in Bristol, Birmingham, and Nottingham, is conducting research into the most general conceptual and metaphysical foundations of science, in particular as concerns, dispositions, laws, causes, and natural kinds.

CONTACT: ESF/AHRC project: on Consciousness in Interaction: The Role of the Natural and Social Environment in Shaping Consciousness, under the ESF scheme on Consciousness in Natural and Cultural Context. PI: Dr Finn Spicer; researchers.

 

Recent grant successes

  • Leon Horsten and Philip Welch (Principal Investigators), 2011-12: Templeton Foundation Grant: 'The limits and scope of mathematical knowledge', £26k
  • Richard Pettigrew, 2011-12: AHRC Early Career Fellowship, £35k
  • Michelle Montague, 2011: AHRC Early Career Fellowship
  • James Ladyman, Oystein Linnebo, Leon Horsten, 2009: AHRC Research Grant, £380K
  • Oystein Linnebo, 2009: ERC Starting Investigator Grant, 940K euros
  • Chris Bertram, 2009: AHRC Network Grant, 40K euros
  • Giles Pearson, 2009: AHRC Research Leave Scheme, £26K
  • Jimmy Doyle, 2009: Visiting Fellowship at Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, $50K
  • Samir Okasha, 2008: AHRC Research Grant: 'Evolution, Co-operation and Rationality', £550K.
  • Chris Bertram, 2008: British Academy/Leverhulme SRF £31K
  • Susan Hurley, 2007: ESF/AHRC Eurocores CNCC Scheme: "Consciousness in Interaction: The role of the natural and social environment in shaping consciousness" £460K.
  • Hannes Leitgeb, 2007: ESF/AHRC Eurocores CNCC Scheme: "Metacognition as a precursor to self-consciousness: evolution, deveopment and epistemology" £85K.
  • Hannes Leitgeb, 2007: Philip Leverhulme Prize, £70K.
  • Anthony Evertett, 2007: AHRC Research Leave Scheme, £25K.
  • Seiriol Morgan, 2006: AHRC Research Leave Scheme £25K.
  • Alexander Bird, 2006: AHRC Research Grant " Metaphysics of Science" £271K.
  • Oystein Linnebo, 2006: Mind Association Fellowship £12K.
  • James Ladyman, 2005: Philip Leverhulme Prize £50K.