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FCT/ESF PANEL VISIT FLUP, October 23 rd 2014 ifilosofia.up.pt
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Topics
1. Vision & strategy
2. The institutional context
3. Internal structure
4. Members
5. Main activities and budget
6. SWOT
7. Summary of the 2015-2020 strategic plan
8. Questions and open discussion
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1. Vision & strategy
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Vision & strategies
1. Philosophy can offer a critical contribution to the contemporary scientific, cultural, political and social questions. We are committed to promote high quality research in 3 philosophical domains, adopting diverse theoretical approaches.
2. Philosophy is a crucial asset for our world and culture. We are committed to foster and support research of core philosophical questions and to make its results available to the widest possible audience, both in the academia and outside it, in Portugal and abroad.
3. Research is an expensive activity and it must aim at the growth of knowledge. IF is strongly committed to excellence and to being a leading national and international reference RU in key areas of philosophical research.
4. Good science needs qualified communication. IF’s commitment is to participate in national and international scientific networks and to share our scientific output in top ranked publications and venues.
5. More funding is needed to consolidate research. We are committed to apply to international funding, thus contributing to overcome precarious conditions in academia and scientific research.
6. A highly qualified team should share its skills. To promote graduate training of young generations and post doc research is one of our priorities.
7. Cooperation and competitiveness are not mutually exclusive. IF is committed to share means and facilities with other research units.
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2. The institutional context
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Universidade do Porto
Faculties & Schools: Architecture Arts & Humanities (Letras) Biomedical Sciences Fine Arts Law Nutrition Economics Engineering Medicine Odontology Pharmacy Psychology and Sciences of Education Sciences Sports Porto Business School
Students: 31.221
Teaching staff & PhD researchers: 2.382
PhD students: 3.357
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Research Units: 51
Assessment: 27 with Excellent or Very Good
Associate Laboratories: 9
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17 + Departmental Libraries Libraries:
1 707 067 Downloaded articles (2011):
Universidade do Porto - Research
Faculdade de Letras
9 Departments • Ciências e Técnicas do Património
• Estudos Anglo-Americanos
• Estudos Germanísticos
• Estudos Portugueses e Estudos Românicos
• Filosofia
• Geografia
• História e Estudos Políticos e Internacionais
• Sociologia
• Jornalismo e Ciências da Comunicação
6 Research Units
• Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território (CEGOT)
• Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória (CITCEM)
• Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto (CLUP)
• Instituto de Filosofia (IF)
• Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa (CLCML)
• Instituto de Sociologia (ISFLUP)
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Faculdade de Letras
Faculty / Teaching staff: 185 FTE
Master students: 1167 (Philosophy 58)
Undergraduate students: 2.294 (Philosophy 175)
Main Library: c. 400.000 volumes; c. 2.100 journal titles; + electronic databases
Computers: c. 300 Broadband and wireless in all buildings
PhD students: 398 (Philosophy 35)
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3. IF Internal structure
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Structure 2015-2020
Organization Scientific Committee (18 members) Director (1) Executive Committee (3 members)
Integrated members Post Doc
Post Doc IF fellowships Post Doc FCT fellowships
PhD Students PhD IF fellowships
PhD FCT-PD fellowships Other PhD fellowships
Staff
50-60 15-25 4 15
35 7 4 4
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Board of advisers — Anita Gramigna (Ferrara, It.)
— Danièle Cohn (Paris, Fr.)
— Maarten J.F.M. Hoenen (Freiburg, De.; Basel, Ch.)
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Instituto de
Filosofia DF
1.º ciclo Lic.
2.º ciclo Master
3.º ciclo PhD
Form. Contínua
UC
UE
DEPER
UTAD
Faculty integrated
Members
UA
other
U.Porto
IPB
Students
IPC
* UPorto. FLUP: Faculdade de Letras; DF: Departamento de Filosofia; DEPER: Departamento de Estudos Portugueses e Românicos. UTAD: Universidade de Trás os Montes e Alto Douro – Vila Real; UC: Universidade de Coimbra; UE: Universidade de Évora; UA: Universidade dos Açores; IPC: Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra; IPB: Instituto Politécnico de Beja.
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The Instituto and its members
FLUP
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Instituto’s research structure
• Director • Executive Committee
Staff FLUP
PPS PEC
Board of Advisors Scientific
Committee Staff IF
AP RPS APK MLAG RHPCP
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4. Members
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IF PhD integrated members
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015-2020
PhD integrated
FCT Resercher
Post Doc with Grant
PhD Students
PhD Students with Grant
Members: In & Out
Legend: Blue: In (2014); Red: Out (2008-2013) Browse
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5. Main activities and budget
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Funding 2008-2014
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014* Total FCT Pluriannual Funding 168 750 € 195 250 € 195 250 € 58 669 € 229 802 € 135 478 € 135 478 € 1 118 678 € FCT Projects 30 031 € 82 422 € 98 201 € 83 529 € 104 817 € 399 000 € Bial + Unicer 2 500 € 2 500 € 8 000 € 9 000 € 22 000 € U.Porto & FCT FAAC 8 950 € 5 800 € 10 700 € 24 750 € 8 400 € 2 550 € 7 000 € 68 150 € FCT Science Program 47 959 € 74 047 € 192 454 € 140 779 € 151 525 € 62 853 € 31 000 € 700 618 € FCT Researcher Program 13 137 € 31 000 € 44 137 € CAPES FCT 4 500 € 4 500 € 9 000 € 225 659 € 275 097 € 428 435 € 309 121 € 490 429 € 310 047 € 322 795 € 2 361 582 €
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014* Total FCT Pluriannual Funding 168 750 € 195 250 € 195 250 € 58 669 € 229 802 € 135 478 € 135 478 € 1 118 678 € CompeKKve Funding 56 909 € 79 847 € 233 185 € 250 451 € 260 626 € 310 047 € 187 317 € 1 378 382 €
* Estimated values
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Funding 2008-2020
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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015-2020 *
Pluriannual Funding
Competitive Funding
• PhD Theses: 18 completed ( > 30 underway) (every year c. 30 thesis were supervised)
• Master Thesis: > 35 completed
• Books & Books chapters: 345
• Papers in international peer reviewed journals: 211
• Organized events (Lectures/Seminars/Meetings): > 350
• Missions: >250
• Art Events: >10
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Institute’s Main Achievements (2008–2012)
Missions abroad 2010-2013
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Network: Core partners, Projects, Collaborations
Legend: Blue: Core partners; Red: Projects; Green: Collaborations. N.B.: co-editions, missions, personal contacts, etc., are not considered. Browse
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6. SWOT
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SWOT
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SWOT
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SWOT
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SWOT
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SWOT
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7. Summary of the 2015-2020 strategic plan
N.B.: this section does not represent a change in the application. Some topics and examples
have been selected to support discussion.
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Research Groups
TL Medieval & Early Modern Philosophy Aristotelica Portugalensia Reason, Politics and Society in Medieval & EMPh
TL Modern & Contemporary Philosophy Aesthetics, Politics and Knowledge Mind, Language & Action Roots and Horizons of Philosophy and Culture in Portugal
TL Philosophy of Education Philosophy and Public Space Philosophy of Education and Contemporaneity
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RG Aristotelica Portugalensia. The Reception of Aristotle in Portugal until the 18th Century
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The RG is focused on an innovative and highly skilled field of research which deals with the Portuguese and Spanish’ 16th Century Latin commentaries on Aristotle works, essentially composed by manuscripts - very few of them printed. Main objectives • Reconstruct, within the Aristotelian tradition, the history of problems
concerning logic, scientific methodology, psychology, gnosiology, metaphysics, natural philosophy, politics and ethics;
• Identify and study the most representative authors, works, sources, influences, and transmission of texts;
• Understand the colonial diffusion of Aristotelianism and Philosophy through Portuguese missionary activities, namely in Brazil and in Orient (e.g. Japan and China).
Strategy • Increase the international research networks already consolidated in the RG; • Improve the ongoing projects on Digital Humanities: Aristotelica
Portugalensia; Animal Rationale Mortale; Arca; Sephardic Portuguese Authors;
• Apply to competitive European funds, namely Horizon 2020, integrating an international research project on the reception of Aristotelianism until the 18th C.
RG Reason, Politics and Society in Medieval & EMPh
Reason and Society are the core concepts analyzed by the RG. Approach • Observe different textual sources from Latin and vernacular traditions with an
interdisciplinary approach combining philological, historical and philosophical analysis;
• Assess the dissemination of philosophical and political thought through the domains of liberal arts, theology, historiography, genealogical literature, fiction and poetry.
• Use philological procedures which lead to the electronic edition of works still unknown or poorly edited, which may, in some cases, become critical editions.
Group Structure and main sub-fields of research: • SMELPS - Seminar of Medieval Literature, Thought and Society (J. C. Miranda); • Imago Mundi, Medieval Philosophy in text and Translation (J. Meirinhos); • Reason and Nature (Paula Oliveira e Silva). Main goals: • Improve the ongoing Digital Humanities projects funded by FCT; • Strengthen the interchange of knowledge and participation in common projects
with similar groups in Spain, France, Germany, Italy and Brazil. • Proceed with the policy of submitting projects for competitive funding, both
national and international.
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RG Aesthetics, Politics and Knowledge
Approach
The group’s research is focused on two different aspects of the Kantian heritage:
1. Kant’s conception of rationality as a recipe for obtaining philosophical sistematicity. The study of philosophical systems, in the spirit of Martial Gueroult’s structural analysis, is essential from our point of view.
2. The post-structuralist inquiries into the limits of rationality and sistematicity. This includes a number of questions, such as those of biopolitics, the nature of testimony, the problem of the contemporary, etc.
3. A common denominator between these two lines of approach is the attention to the relations between philosophy’s main provinces, in the wake of Kant’s three Critiques: knowledge, aesthetics and ethics/politics.
Strategy
The APK group intends to promote philosophical exchanges with other groups belonging to the IF and with international groups such as those directed by Professor Danièle Cohn at the University Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne; the Red Iberoamericana Leibniz, directed by Professor Juan Antonio Nicolás (Granada); and the HERMI (Herméneutique, Mythe et Image), directed by Professor Christian Berner (Lille).
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RG Mind, Language & Action
• MLAG’s research is centered on philosophy of mind, philosophy of language and philosophy of action.
• Core work done mostly within the analytic tradition, yet the group is also concerned with comparisons, around specific issues, between different traditions in contemporary philosophy, (eg. 2008-2012 project on Consciousness and Subjectivity, pursued in collaboration with the Goethe Universität-Frankfurt).
• One prime example of the group's conception of research: the main FCT funded project for 2010-2013, The Bounds of Judgement (PTDC/FIL-FIL/109882/2009). Tasks: Frege and Frege Interpreters, Are Laws of Logic Contents of Judgement?, Frege Father of Disjunctivism, Judging Morally, Articulation and Agency and To Be or not To Be a Kantian. All tasks were connected by an interest in one notion - that of judgement. The nature and role of the notion of judgement was explored in several dimensions, ranging from logical judgements, to perceptual judgements, and ethical judgements. The study of Frege’s works (on logic, judgement and truth) gave all tasks a specific orientation.
• MLAG in the context of the Portuguese philosophical community: Research agenda designed to contrast with that of LANCOG-UL (Porto: history of contemporary philosophy and cognitive science) and to complement that of the mind and language groups of IFLNova.
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RG Roots and Horizons of Philosophy and Culture in Portugal
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Topics that characterize the scientific program of the group 1. Transdisciplinary dialogue with other forms of expression (literature, art
and science). 2. Build bridges between different philosophical and cultural spaces of the
Portuguese-speaking world, in a wide and open view to other cultures. Long-term strategy 1. Enlarge the transdisciplinary dialogue already referred. This year, we
have already extended this goal to the field of cinema, namely with (Im)possíveis (trans)posições: ensaios sobre Filosofia, Literatura e Cinema, IF.2014.
2. Continue to build bridges between different philosophical and cultural spaces of the Portuguese-speaking world. Examples of partnerships to expand: this year we are promoting a congress with the University of São Paulo; next year, we will hold a congress in Angola, bringing together Portuguese and Angolan researchers.
3. During the development of these research areas / activities, we also intend to promote both the publication of collective or individual works that result from the investigation, and the translation into other languages (mainly English) of some of the most representative texts of our Philosophy and Culture.
RG Philosophy and Public Space
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The group’s research is focused on two different goals: 1. To engage in spatial reposition of philosophy so as to understand, within
the concept of global dwelling, the new figures of the common; and to answer, by politics, ethics and education proximity, to the contemporary demands for emancipation and recognition;
2. To reflect on the human condition based on the urban condition, through the analysis of crucial relations between Science, Technology, Politics and Society posed in the face of knowledge.
Strategy • Systematize and share the group theoretical corpus within international
meetings and networks by having more international publications and creating an on-line platform site as a debate forum based on the ongoing research and production of this group;
• Extend the cooperation agreements, promoting post graduated studies in relation to other foreign RGs and international networks; e.g. Thematic Network: science and technology ethics – CYTED, U. Barcelona, Prof. Josep Esquirol ; Philosophy of the City RG, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center, Prof. Michael Menser; Ethics and democracy, RG Plan de Investigación 2.2 de la Universitat Jaume I de Castellón, Prof, Domingo García Marzá; ÉTNOR Foudation, Valencia, Prof. Adela Cortina; Salamanca University, Prof. Leoncio Vega.
RG Philosophy of Education and Contemporaneity
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Main aims 1. Develop a specific corpus of knowledge in Philosophy of Education through the
integration of diverse philosophical traditions and orientations, in order to respond philosophically to the major problems of education in contemporaneity, assuming that Philosophy of Education flows seamlessly into the work which is being done in mainstream areas of philosophy;
2. Mature the philosophical reflection on the historical, anthropological and sociological groundings of Human Rights, as well as on their paradigms of reference in the contemporary world;
3. Focus on the notions of anthropological itinerancy and vulnerability, within the debate on the criteria of humanity and the emergence of the inhuman and violence as human phenomena, in collaboration with other IFs and external research groups.
Strategies and Methods 1. Develop and strengthen the research program defined in the different cooperation
agreements and research partnerships, thus preparing applications for national and international funding.
2. Continue the activities of postgraduate education and research developed under the different cooperation agreements established;
3. Proceed the improvement of our peer reviewed journal Itinerários de Filosofia da Educação with international contributions and the adoption of all the standard criteria of a top level academic journal. Our journal is crucial for the dissemination and internationalization of the research produced.
4. Organize scientific meetings, apply to project competitions, train postgraduates and publish will be the core outcomes of the RG, in order to promote the discussion between researchers as well as to improve their participation in meetings abroad and in international publications particularly in English.
8. Questions and open discussion
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RG Aesthetics, Politics and Knowledge
Question: “lack of a clear profile (aims, methods)” 1. The APK Group will try to improve the articulation between its two main
trends by focusing on the Kantian perspective which lies at the root of its project.
2. This will lead to an inquiry into the pervasiveness of a Kantian style of thinking in contemporary philosophy, even in areas and schools of thought who may seem impervious to such an influence. The “Kantian style” should be understood in an ample way, so as to encompass different readings of its nuclear features.
3. The method to be used in such an inquiry will be the analysis of different contemporary philosophical styles (e. g., phenomenological, post-structuralist, analytical) and the confrontation between those styles and the Kantian way of thinking.
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RG Philosophy of Education and Contemporaneity
Question: “lack of a clear profile (aims, methods)” Aims 1. PEC’s RG central goal is the study of the philosophical foundations of
Human Rights in the present context of a globalized and multicultural society, wherein the problem of universality and the consideration of individuality and local contexts, have a particular importance;
2. This RG configures the opportunity to shape a theoretical (philosophical) framework with scientific relevance but also a motivational platform for political action and social-educational intervention, arising from the reconfiguration of the concept of citizenship.
Methods 1. As Philosophy of Education in the Portuguese-speaking World ends as an
independent RG, this research group will pursuit the aims of cooperation with other international research networks.
2. The online publication of Itinerários de Filosofia da Educação, and the organization and participation on top ranked international meetings will improve high quality publications, particularly in English.
3. The RG considers that this is an adequate strategy for obtaining external and international funds, including programs of European Union such as Horizon 2020.
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RG Mind, Language & Action Question: “lack of interdisciplinary collaboration”
2003-2013: Created in 2003 in an interdisciplinary context (cognitive science at UP): • MLAG RG is the only philosophy group in Portugal funded by a Pharmaceutical foundation (BIAL, which sponsors mind-brain research) (3 projects, since 2009). Psychologists and neuroscientists are present in all research teams; • FLAD-funded project 2007-2009 Conversations on Human Action and Practical Rationality interviewees included economists, cognitive psychologists and psychiatrists; • MLAG RG constitutes a strong cognitive science component of FCT Projects POCI/FIL/55555/ 2004 (2004-2008) and PTDC/FIL-FIL/109882/2009 (2011-2014).
2014 - • CNRS network 2014-2020 (Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Paris, Rome, Porto): not cognitive-science oriented (common language philosophy, Wittgenstein and Austin, following from former work on contextualism in the philosophy of language); • MLAG at I3S UP/neurosciences, following our participation in NERRI (neuroscience project, IBMC, funded by: EU 7th Framework Programme).
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