Descrizione del progetto
Chiarire la natura del processo decisionale
Capacità cognitive limitate possono compromettere il processo decisionale, riducendo l’autonomia individuale. Questo problema viene aggravato dalla diversità delle teorie relative a tale processo, generando complesse implicazioni per le pratiche mediche e legali ed esercitando un impatto sul trattamento e sui diritti delle persone in questi contesti. Purtroppo, queste tematiche ricevono spesso un’attenzione inadeguata in ambito filosofico e nella pratica. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto CAD si propone di valutare le teorie filosofiche inerenti al processo decisionale. Prendendo in considerazione intuizioni in vari settori, quali psicologia, scienze cognitive e psichiatria, CAD si propone di far luce sui processi decisionali compiendo uno sforzo inteso a migliorare la nostra comprensione di tali processi, nonché a facilitarne la valutazione all’interno di contesti legali e medici tenendo conto di fattori esterni e della ricerca scientifica.
Obiettivo
The focus of this project is what it is for an agent to be able to make a decision, and when we should count them as being able to do so. This is a question that has received sustained attention throughout the history of philosophy, and there are many different theories and models of decision-making on offer. Different views of decision-making can have huge practical impact: in various legal and medical contexts, decision-making capacity is assessed in order to determine how people are viewed and treated, including whether they are fit to stand trial, have the right to refuse medical treatment, or are viewed as criminally responsible.
Drawing on a range of philosophical, psychological, cognitive scientific, and psychiatric literature, this project will aim to evaluate different philosophical theories of decision-making. The novel contribution of this project, and its particular methodological focus, will be to focus on assessing theories of decision-making by their practical impact - an important, but often-neglected metric for assessing philosophical theories and concepts.
As well as further elucidating and clarifying the core question of the nature of decision-making, two key benefits of this project are envisaged. First, a substantive contribution to the question of how decision-making ought to be assessed in the relevant legal and medical contexts. For example, one key focus of the project will be the neglect of external influences (social and environmental) in facilitating decision-making, where currently in many contexts they are treated solely as potential hinderances. Secondly, the project will bring recent work in philosophy of science on 'pluralism' to bear on the question of how legal frameworks and decisions are and ought to be informed by relevant scientific and empirical research and expertise, given their different focuses, goals, and explanatory interests and the impact that this has on their conceptualizations of relevant phenomena.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinatore
8000 Aarhus C
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