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2003-2006 |
Motivation, Reasoning and Truth (BFF2003-08335-C03-01) Coordinator: Josep E. Corbí Fernández de Ibarra Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad de Murcia and Universitat de Valčncia |
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The dominant conception of the self is inspired in the ideal of a pure deliberator who reasons appropriately by controlling her passions. Desires, emotions and interests are viewed in this picture as arbitrary data about the subject's psychology that can only be rationally assessed from an instrumental point of view. This picture of the self and of the role of desires and emotions in the search of truth derives from an epistemology that emphasizes careful observation, experimental design and unprejudiced experimental reports. This epistemology has favored the enormous scientific and technological progress of the last centuries. The aim of the Coordinated Research Project is to explore the virtues and limitations of this picture of ideal reasoning and the subsequent conception of the self. It will adopt two complementary perspectives which, we hope, will converge in a stimulating discussion and a significant refinement of the detailed philosophical proposals that we may eventually make. The subproject of Barcelona will try to show that there is nothing genuinely special about the so called special contexts, like moral and aesthetical discourse, or even fiction. They will defend that the features of truth and its cognates in 'normal' (i.e. descriptive or theoretical) discursive contexts also suffice to account for the use of such notions in so called special discourses. The subprojects of Murcia and Valencia will focus on moral and aesthetic experiences. They will try to show that the analysis of these experiences naturally leads to a notion of a competent deliberator that challenges the dominant conception of the self and of reasoning. This alternative conception also applies to theoretical and descriptive discourse and cast light on some central philosophical issues like the foundationalism-relativism dilemma, the fact/value distinction or free will.
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Creencia, Motivación y Verdad (BFF2003-08335-C03-01) Main Researcher: Josep E. Corbí Fernández de Ibarra Universitat de Valčncia |
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2000-2003 |
Deliberación, Realismo y verdad (BFF2000-1073-C04-03) Main Researcher: Josep E. Corbí Fernández de Ibarra Universitat de Valčncia |
