The Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences achieved a great success: The team headed by Professor Peregrin received a 20 million grant
Researchers from the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Philosophical Faculty, University of Hradec Králové, celebrated a tremendous success at the end of October 2019. Professor Jaroslav Peregrin and his colleagues put together a project titled Naturalised inferentialism: standards, meanings and reasons in nature and it was selected by the Czech Science Foundation amongst the top 20 elite grant projects of excellence under the EXPRO programme. The project, valued at CZK 21,515,000, was one of two selected projects in the field of humanities and social sciences.
The project, which goes under the title Naturalised inferentialism: standards, meanings and reasons in nature, is to cover a five year period and it will be coordinated by a team of internationally-based researchers headed by Professor Peregrin. Team members include Dr. Ladislav Koreň (Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Philosophical Faculty, UHK), Professor Mark Risjord (Emory University) and Dr. Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University). “The project is a follow-up of several projects on normativeness and inferentialism that we worked on at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. In the mean time, Dr. Koreň put a lot of hard work into creating an exceptional team of internationally based researchers at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Hradec Králové and it is thanks to this team that we could actually apply for this tremendous grant. And we succeeded,” noted Professor Peregrin.
Dr. Koreň added that “the objective of this project is to confront inferentialism, which lies at the heart of the theory of philosophy, with the results of relevant sciences, such as logic, linguistics, cognitive psychology and the theory of evolution.”
