Philosophers Among ERC Starting Grant Recipients
Several philosophers are among the recently announced winners of the European Research Council’s “Starting Grants”.
The grants are each about €1.5 million, and are given to provide five years of support for “cutting-edge research”. The grants “will help researchers at the beginning of their careers to launch their own projects, form their teams and pursue their most promising ideas.”
The philosophers and their projects are:
Pieter Beullens (KU Leuven)
Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations
Silvia Di Vincenzo (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca)
The Uncharted Margins of Philosophy: An AI-Enhanced Material History of Arabic Logic Across Time (12th-19th c.) and Frontiers (from Spain to India)
Michael Klenk (Delft University of Technology)
Careful, Now! A New SociostructuralTheory of Manipulation and Its Normative Status
Nicolai Knudsen (Aarhus University)
The Glue of Society: A Social Ontology of Social Cohesion
Kamil Mamak (University of Helsinki)
Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law in the Age of Robots
Poppy Mankowitz (University of Bristol)
Expressing Value in Language
Neri Marsili (University of Turin)
The Epistemology of Costly Communication—Offline and Online
Celso Alves Neto (University of Exeter)
Taking Racism out of Human Genetics: A Philosophical Approach
Marilena Panarelli (University of Turin)
Reassessing Late Medieval Pharmacology: Logical and Metaphysical Tools in the Medical Context
Sébastien Rivat (University of Munich)
The Scale Revolution in Physics: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Christoph Sander (Free University of Berlin)
Science and Dogma: Tracing Natural Knowledge within Scholastic Theology (1545-1789)
Emily Sullivan (Utrecht University)
Machine Learning in Science and Society: A Dangerous Toy?
Olav Benjamin Vassend (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)
Towards a Theory of Rational Desire
(If we missed someone, please let us know.)
The full list of grant winners can be accessed here.
Note: The original version of this post mistakenly omitted Pieter Beullens.
What do philosophers do with all that money? I thought all they needed was an armchair.
Buy armchairs, university overheards to host armchairs, salaries for time spent sitting in armchairs, books to read in armchair, and travel funds to visit armchairs in other places.
Pita
Typically, these grants cover the salaries for post docs and PhDs. So it is not as much money as you think. Think of a post doc’s salary for three years (including pension contributions, etc.). Where I work, PhDs also have a decent salary and they are employees of the university (not students). And the grants can also pay for workshops and conferences, but these costs very littel compared salaries.