Research Projects

Research projects

Current research projects include:

AHRC Evolution, Co-operation and Rationality project. A three year AHRC project commencing in October 2008 led by Professors Samir Okasha and Ken Binmore.
The project addresses the philosophical implications of recent work in evolutionary biology on the topics of co-operation, social behaviour and the conflict between individual and group interests.

AHRC Metaphysics of Science project. This research project, with centres in Bristol, Birmingham, and Nottingham, is conducting research into the most general conceptual and metaphysical foundations of science, in particular as concerns, dispositions, laws, causes, and natural kinds.

CONTACT: ESF/AHRC project: on Consciousness in Interaction: The Role of the Natural and Social Environment in Shaping Consciousness, under the ESF scheme on Consciousness in Natural and Cultural Context. PI: Dr Finn Spicer; researchers.

Experimental Philosophy "X-phi” applies the methods of experimental psychology to the study of intuitions.

The Foundations of Structuralism project will investigate the logical foundations of structuralist theories in mathematics and physics, and aims to integrate work done in each of these disciplines. The principal
investigator for the project is James Ladyman, with co-investigators Leon
Horsten and Oystein Linnebo.

Research Theme "Science, Knowledge, and Reality"  The University of Bristol supports, as one its chosen Research Themes, this theme which concerns foundational questions in the philosophies of the sciences and the relationship between science and the humanities.

Territory and Justice Network is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) and the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. It aims to to develop a bi-lateral network of Irish and UK researchers on the topic, "Theories of Territory: Resource Rights, Global Justice, and Self-Determination".

Recent grant successes