Project description
The social role of philosophy in today’s democracies
What is the role of philosophy in today’s democratic societies struggling with populism? The EU-funded InRatio project will answer this question. Firstly, it will address the main prejudices against philosophy: its alleged lack of objective knowledge and scientificity, its uselessness, and its abstractness. The project will also weigh the demand for philosophy and philosophy’s attempt to elaborate an adequate self-image and difficulty to convey its results to society. The findings will overturn these prejudices to build a pluralistic and inclusive account of philosophy’s rationality and improve dialogue with society to foster inclusive critical thinking.
Objective
In a global climate of populist policies fuelled by hate speech, gender discrimination, and the defunding of the humanities, InRatio aims to strengthen philosophys role within contemporary democratic societies. Its educational impact directly addresses the H2020 programme Societal Challenge of creating more inclusive, innovative and reflective communities. The inquiry starts by laying out three tendencies: 1) the consolidation of three prejudices against philosophy (which also influence national financial policies): its alleged lack of objective knowledge and scientificity, its uselessness, and its abstractness; 2) the social demand for philosophy; and 3) philosophys attempt to elaborate an adequate self-image, also considering the gender gap within academic philosophy, and philosophys difficulty to convey its results to society. The research aims to transform this situation by turning those prejudices upside down and emphasising philosophys contribution to societal challenges. InRatio has three objectives: 1) the elaboration of a metaphilosophical account that (a) redefines the kind of knowledge and scientificity belonging to philosophy, (b) reconsiders philosophys impact on education and democratic life; (c) recasts the notion of concreteness in terms of concept networks capable of explanatory power. This will be achieved by building a pluralistic and inclusive account of philosophys rationality, which will combine Hegelian tools, contemporary metaphilosophical positions, and perspectives from feminist epistemologies (as a corrective measure to question notions of knowledge and scientificity). 2) The ideation of philosophical-educational methods aimed at fostering inclusive and critical thinking. This will foresee training in the Philosophy for Children method and in other educational practices. 3) The implementation of a strategy to improve philosophys dialogue with society.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- humanities philosophy, ethics and religion philosophy epistemology
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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35122 PADOVA
Italy
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