The list of national projects SAS
Institute of Philosophy SAS
Philosophical and methodological challenges of intelligent technologies
Filozofické a metodologické výzvy inteligentných technológií
| Duration: |
1.7.2023 - 30.6.2027 |
| Program: |
SRDA |
| Project leader: |
PhDr. Vacek Daniela PhD. |
| Annotation: | Intelligent technologies give rise to pressing philosophical and methodological challenges of theoretical importance and practical relevance. The present project explores such challenges in three areas: moral philosophy, legal philosophy, and methodology of sciences. Concerning moral philosophy, providers of intelligent technologies are
only partially aware of the ethical issues concerning the technology they develop, and only partially understand and control how intelligent technologies arrive at their decisions. This is often perceived as a threat to the possibility of moral culpability for the negative impact of intelligent technologies on the world. Concerning legal philosophy (and law), it is still largely an open question how intelligent technologies will be, and should be, regulated ac ross different jurisdictions, and whether international law should step in. Finally, a methodological reflection of intelligent technologies and their normative problems is almost lacking. The project will set out to resolve these timely problems and consider notions that venture beyond single individuals and their backward-looking responsibility:
collective culpability, vicarious liability, and forward-looking responsibility will be suggested as appropriate tools to overcome the above problems in moral and legal philosophy. The project will also methodologically assess the debate on intelligent technologies in moral and legal philosophy, and propose an exhaustive and exclusive classification of techno-responsibility gaps. |
Concepts of culture and nation in Slovak philosophical and political thought of the 19th and 20th centuries : initiatives, polemics, criticism
Koncepcie kultúry a národa v slovenskom filozofickom a politickom myslení 19. a 20. storočia : iniciatívy, polemiky, kritika
| Duration: |
1.1.2024 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
Mgr. Martinkovič Marcel PhD. |
| Annotation: | The aim of the project is to analyse and critically evaluate concepts of culture in Slovak philosophical and political thought of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary philosophical debates and their impact on Slovak culture. The research emphasis will concentrate on the analysis of the formation of individual narratives of cultural identity, the relationship between nation and state and its philosophical justification. The project will focus on the characterization of the development of philosophical-political thought, which, in addressing issues of cultural, national and social progress, was framed by philosophical disputes based on the paradigm of immanence in social philosophy, culminating in the initiatives of reformist Marxism and the transcendental approaches of Christian personalism, blondism, intuitive realism as well as other philosophical trends. Within this ideological tension, the research will concentrate on selected polemics that contained philosophical justifications for selected conceptions of the institutionalization of Slovak culture. |
The Principle of Humanity in the Context of Contemporary Conflicts. Existential and Phenomenological Challenges
Princíp ľudskosti v kontexte konfliktov súčasnosti. Existenciálne a fenomenologické výzvy
| Duration: |
1.1.2023 - 31.12.2025 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
prof. Mgr. Mgr. Šajda Peter PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project focuses on possible applications of the principle of humanity in contemporary conflicts. Difference can be presented not merely as antagonism and polemos, which lead to the annihilation of the other pole, but also as a challenge of interaction and coexistence without the elimination of constitutive distinctions. We examine the formation of paradigms that conceive of difference primarily as antagonism and support a boundless negation of the “bearers” of otherness. Parallel to the criticism of these paradigms we develop a reflection of their corrective in the form of the principle of humanity as a framework for the tolerance of difference. We examine what humanity means in our current conditions. The application of the principle of humanity is a key step in preventing the absolutization of antagonism and in deescalating conflicts. We explore different ways of creating space for the use of this principle as well as the limits of its meaningful application. |
The Social Nature of Normativity as a Starting Point for Explaining the Relationship between Individual and Collective Autonomy
Sociálna povaha normativity ako východisko vysvetlenia vzťahu individuálnej a kolektívnej autonómie
| Duration: |
1.1.2024 - 31.12.2027 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
prof. Dr. phil. Muránsky Martin PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project focuses on the principles of individual and collective self-determination based on their common postulate - the social nature of normativity. Reflecting on the Socratic question of how to live (well), the project thematises alternatives to a reductionist approach , in which normativity is understood only as the application of 'ready-made' norms, and norms are understood as its constraining prescriptions. The main hypothesis of the project is: A non-reductive conception of norms operates on the basis of the internalized requirement of their consistent justifiability for its creators and receivers , and not independently of it. Using the dynamics of formally explicit rules and informally implicit norms, the project also reflects on the critical limits of such a conception. In doing so, it draws on the conflictuality of the principles of individual and collective self-determination in the context of human rights, given in tension of deontological and utilitarian aproach to normativity. |
Symbolic Structures in the Tension between Authenticity and Tradition
Symbolické štruktúry v napätí medzi autenticitou a tradíciou
Tasks of Political Philosophy in the Context of the Anthropocene II
Úlohy politickej filozofie v kontexte antropocénu II
| Duration: |
1.1.2024 - 31.12.2026 |
| Program: |
VEGA |
| Project leader: |
doc. Mgr. Sťahel Richard PhD. |
| Annotation: | The project aims to explore the relevance of the Anthropocene concept for political and environmental
philosophy. It is a continuation of the VEGA 2/0072/21 project, the aim of which was to develop a methodology for the political and economic rendering of the current and expected state of Earth System, following the hypothesis that a political philosophy adequate to the Anthropocene will have to be at the same time an environmental philosophy. The philosophical exploration of this hypothesis has been documented in the main output of the project "Introduction to Environmental Political Philosophy" (Prague: Malvern 2023, in press). Following this, it is necessary to move from an elementary definition to the elaboration of a coherent theory of environmental political philosophy (EPP). The aim of the project is therefore to explore questions of methodology, cultural conditioning, critique and metacritique of EPP and its possible influences of normative practical philosophy in the Anthropocene epoch. |
Responsibility and Modal Logic
Zodpovednosť a modálna logika
The total number of projects: 7
