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Grant scheme: APVV-14-0706 - Slovak Research and Development Agency

Project title: Heidegger, Metaphysics and the History of Philosophy

Implementation period: 07/2015 - 12/2018

Position: member of research team

The project was dedicated to an exploration of the central issue of Heidegger's philosophy – the question of Being in the context of his understanding of and the history of philosophy. The emphasis was on the problem of Heidegger's understanding of Being in its genesis from his early work to his late writings. The exploration of Heidegger's philosophy centered around the question: What is Being? was framed as a philosophical and simultaneously historical-philosophical project. Thereby, the unity of the history of philosophy and the fundamental question of metaphysics turned into an original approach. The question, what is Being, was confronted with Greek philosophy, modern metaphysics and the metaphysics of the 20th century.

Grant scheme: APVV-17-0529 - Slovak Research and Development Agency

Project title: Postmetaphysical thinking in the context of current socio-political problems

Implementation period: 07/2018 - 6/2022

Position: member of research team

The basic question, which the project focused on, is to characterise today's socio-political situation and the place of philosophy in it as concisely as possible or what can philosophy offer in this space. Today, at the beginning of third millennium, we stand at the end of the époque of dualisms characteristic for western tradition thinking. This end is possible especially due to the deconstruction of metaphysics. The dispute between religion and science is already a matter of a past. Philosophical theories, such as positivistic scientism and Marxism, which tried to definitely kill religion, are now over. Naturally, neither religion is what it used to be. Its political version is subject to economic and social-political changes. What kind of changes in its concrete versions, what causes them and what are the consequences are the main questions of the project.

Grant scheme: VEGA 1/0232/21 - Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education

Project title: Vzťah filozofie a vedy v súčasnosti

Implementation period: 01/2021 - 12/2023

Position: member of research team

The main goal of the project is (1.) a historical and philosophical, or specifically philosophical interpretation of Husserl's, Heidegger's, and Patočka's conception of the relationship between philosophy and science. The Common denominator is the opinion, that even despite the fast development of science and technology, science is, paradoxically, in a crisis. (2.) We will confront the positions of the non-analytical philosophers with the conceptions of the analytical philosophers, who moved the point of the subject state to the field of philosophy of science, respectively, methodology of science. Ontological problems are no longer in the centre of attention, as they were in the Heidegger philosophy. One of the most important moments of non-analytical and analytical confrontations is the problem of scientific realism and the relation of scientific theories to reality. (3.) We consider the attempt to perform an in-depth analysis of a Nietzsche´s concept of perspectivism as the novelty of the presented project. It is exactly this question which may help to elaborate the not so deeply explored views on the connections between philosophy and science, or alternatively philosophical and scientific thinking, which was not given due attention in Slovakia yet. The main goal of the project is to investigate the question of the relation between philosophy and science as a philosophical question. The reason for this is obvious. The question of the purpose of science is existentially connected to the problem of the human existence in its specific historical-sociological terms. In these sets of conditions, it is only natural that existential worry of a man for himself is always dominant. The question to be answered is, what is the interconnection between all of this.

Grant scheme: APVV-14-0706 - Slovak Research and Development Agency

Project title: Possible Worlds and Modalities: Current Philosophical Approaches

Implementation period: 07/2021 - 6/2025

Position: member of research team

The objective of the project is to update and revise the theoretical core of different approaches to possible, impossible, fictional, narrative, and discursive worlds. The project plans to find the content, logical and structural interconnectedness of the terms of modality, fiction, discourse, virtuality, worldness, and to define and further differentiate them as notions. The objectives of the project include a critical analysis of the development of views on the nature of possible worlds, possible individuals, and other modal concepts from the early 1970s to the present, detailed elaboration of the relationship between possible and fictional worlds, deepening the concept of narrative in relation to possible and fictional worlds, identification of various forms of fictionality in various fields of art, a more specific definition of the basic attributes of the so-called worldness, reinforcing the emphasis on the constructive role of the human mind, determining the relationships between modal discourse on the one hand and the concepts of interpretation and intentionality on the other. The project has the ambition to become the basis of metaphilosophical research. Its originality lies primarily in the fact that it connects different perspectives (analytical, hermeneutic, phenomenological) in addressing the issues of modalities in a philosophical context.

Grant scheme: VVGS-2022-2512 - University of Pavol Jozef Šafárik

Project title: Utlizing argument mapping for development of critical thinking in educational process

Implementation period: 03/2023 - 2/2024

Position: member of research team

The aim of the project is to create and implement an interactive textbook, which ought to enable students to acquire and cultivate a critical understanding of complex philosophical texts through the construction of comprehensible argument mapping. Given the current prominence and promotion of the ability to critically analyse received information, argument mapping is one of the key tools for promoting logical thinking, reading comprehension, and scientific rationality. Since this type of educational tool absents in our regional space, thanks to the thematically modified exercises and interface it could be used within the currently offered courses by the Department of Philosophy, especially in the course "Critical thinking". Due to its instrumental nature and modifiable content, this educational tool qualifies for utilization in a thematically diverse environment of the faculty/university study programs.