Research centers, groups and projects connected with our network
Agency, Rationality and Epstemic Defeat (ARED)
Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED) is an interdisciplinary research project on epistemic agency and rationality supported by UKRI through the Future Leaders Fellowship scheme. It is a collaboration between philosophy, cognitive developmental psychology, and cognitive ethology hosted by the University of Stirling and the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna.
Center for the Study of Language, Mind and Society (LMS Center)
The Center for the Study of Language, Mind and Society (LMS Center) functions as a research centre at the Department of Philosophy, University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic). The aim of the LMS Center is to promote interdisciplinary research, connecting philosophy with the scientific disciplines whose results are relevant to understanding the nature and principles of the human mind, human language, and human society.
Concepts and Perception (C&P) is a research group focused on representational content and vehicles of concepts and perception and their role in normativity, knowledge, and reasoning.
Ethics, Values and Planning: AESOP Thematic Group
This AESOP thematic group brings people together to discuss key ethical issues in urban planning. It organizes seminars and conferences and offers an open space for members to exchange ideas. The group focuses on four main topics: the link between ethics and spatial organization, the meaning of spatial justice, how to include values in urban governance and planning, and the different ethical approaches in planning and how to put them into practice.
Legal Acts, Images, Institutions (LAII)
Legal Acts, Images, Institutions (LAII) studies the legal and philosophical structure of laws and contracts. It looks at how these documents are shaped by today’s social, international, and technological changes, as well as by new theories on legal design and social ontology. The project examines how legal acts create effects and institutions, and how rules, especially constitutive rules, shape and regulate them. This perspective has changed how we understand legal acts and has led to a rethinking of traditional boundaries. The project was funded by Fondazione Sardegna in 2019.
Legal Theory and Cognitive Science Laboratory at the University of Bologna
The aim of the Legal Theory and Cognitive Science Laboratory at the University of Bologna is to investigate empirically the cognitive foundations of law and legal institutions, with a special focus on embodied cognition and legal concepts. It is run by a research group made of two legal theorists (Corrado Roversi, Michele Ubertone) and three cognitive psychologists (Luisa Lugli, Stefania D’Ascenzo, Caterina Villani).
Normative Artifacts and Normative Drawings: Investigating Non-Linguistic Regulation
This PRIN project aims at creating a new and widespread awareness of normative drawings and artifacts. Non-linguistic regulation could effectively be employed not only in different areas of the public sector (e.g. administrative digitalisation, urban design, traffic), but also in the private sector (e.g. contracts, real estate management, information technology).
Norms, Uncertainty and Space: Cities in the age of Hyper-Complexity
The main objective of NOUS is to recognise the validity and limits of the production of norms in situations of emergency and in highly uncertain conditions. The project is run by a research group made of architects, geographers, plilosophers and planners.
Persona: Research Centre in Phenomenology and Sciences of the Person
The research centre PERSONA studies phenomenology as a way to respond to scepticism about the reliability of ordinary experience, both in knowledge and in ethics. It sees experience as the essential basis for how a person uses reason, in thinking and in acting.
PHILAWSON: Philosophy of Law and Social Ontology International Research Network
Since September 2023, the international network Philawson, Philosophy of Law and Social Ontology, has brought together legal philosophers interested in social ontology and social ontologists working on philosophy of law. Its goal is to create an open and supportive space where early career scholars can discuss key themes, authors, and methods at the intersection of these fields. Philawson also connects members with established scholars.