CHiPhi research projects
Members of CHiPhi are involved in a number of research projects on the history of philosophy.
| Keith Allen |
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| is working on theories of ideas in the early modern period, and particularly the role of ideas in Locke's epistemology and philosophy of mind. He has recently written the entries on 'Ideas' and 'Perception' in the Continuum Companion to Locke, edited by S.-J. Savonius-Wroth, Paul Schuurman and Jonathan Walmsley (Continuum, 2010), and his paper 'Locke on the Nature of Ideas' is forthcoming in Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie. For 2010-11, Keith has an Anniversary Lectureship at the University of York. |
| Mike Beaney |
| ran a project on 'Mathematical Analysis and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy' with Professor Marco Panza of the IHPST in Paris, jointly funded by the British Academy and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Mike gave two talks at the Institute during a research visit in February 2010, on 'Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction' and on 'Frege's Functional Framework'. Marco and other French scholars came to York for a conference from 30 September to 2 October 2010. Information is available on this conference, which also included a postgraduate workshop, on the events page. |
| Amber Carpenter |
| organized the annual conference for the Northern Association in Ancient Philosophy, held in York, 7-9 April 2011. As well as ancient philosophy, she also works on Indian philosophy. |
| Chris Hookway |
| had an AHRC research leave award from September 2009 to February 2010 to work on 'Pragmatism and perception'. The project involved writing papers on Peirce's anti-psychologism, on the different strategies he adopted for proving the correctness of perception, and on his views about perception. |
| Bob Stern |
| was awarded a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2008-10. His research was on 'Autonomy, Self-Legislation and Moral Realism'. This project considered whether there is a coherent argument from autonomy to some form of antirealism or constructivism in ethics: if we are autonomous agents, does it follow that moral realism should be rejected? The position adopted is that this argument from autonomy to anti-realism is mistaken, and that its uncritical adoption has distorted our understanding of the history of ethics. As a result of this research, Bob has a book manuscript entitled Understanding Moral Obligation: Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard, (due to be published in March 2012) which assesses their different accounts of moral obligation in the light of issues surrounding autonomy, realism, and self-legislation, while offering original accounts of the positions of these three thinkers and others (such as Schiller). |
| Tom Stoneham |
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is currently involved in two projects:
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