GRECC

Presentation

GRECC is a research group that has been active since the mid-1990s, and has been recognized as a consolidated research group by the Generalitat de Catalunya since 1999. We are based at the UAB.

GRECC is a group with great diversity in philosophical areas and specific topics covered, united by a commitment to analytical rigor in philosophy and by shared high-level thematic interests.

The group is composed of three sub-groups which concentrate their work in the following areas:

(1) reconciling the manifest and scientific images of the world as they touch on the concepts of space/time, causality and chance;

(2) the place of normativity in naturalized approaches to epistemology, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind;

(3) analysis of aesthetics and art theory informed by psychology and cognitive science.

One of the group's main activities qua group in the past four years has been a regular reading group in which philosophical works (recently-published or unpublished, by group members or by others) are discussed and criticized. For 2010-2011 our plan is to focus most of these meetings on works concerned with the nature of time and its relationships to human thought, agency, knowledge, and aesthetic experience.

GRECC's members and sub-groups have individually organized a variety of public philosophy events such as lectures and workshops, on topics related to our research themes. But in the coming years GRECC aims to establish a regular bi-monthly seminar series, or colloquium, specific to GRECC, in which invited speakers (mainly, but not exclusively, from outside Spain) will give talks on topics closely related to our research topics. In addition to its internal research activities and the GRECC colloquium series, GRECC intends to co-sponsor a number of conferences on themes closely related to the sub-group's research projects.

The first conference was held on 18-20 February, 2010. This three-day conference, co-organized with LOGOS and the research group of Prof. Jose Diez (UB), covered the themes of causation and explanation in specific sciences (with one day devoted to each of the three sciences of biology, economics and physics). GRECC also intends to co-sponsor one or more conferences on our topic of time and consciousness. These will bring together academics from a number of areas both within and outside of philosophy (e.g. physicists, psychologists, cognitive scientists). We expect to hold the first such conference in 2011.

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