Manuel Heras-Escribano, investigador Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación del Departamento de Filosofía 1 y miembro de Filolab, ha obtenido uno de los Proyectos de Consolidación Investigadora 2022 de la Agencia Estatal de Investigación y el Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. El proyecto se titula “Toward an Ecological Approach to the Natural Origins of Content: From Direct Perception to Social Norms (ECOCONTENT)”. El proyecto está dotado con 99.632,40 euros que cubrirán los gastos de investigación y el coste de incentivo a la consolidación del IP mediante una plaza permanente. A continuación publicamos un resumen del proyecto en inglés:
“The Project ECOCONTENT aims to establish the conceptual and methodological foundations of an innovative, multidisciplinary philosophical framework for the naturalization of the human mind. For this, ECOCONTENT aims to redefine the idea of mental content, a key concept in the contemporary philosophy of mind and the cognitive sciences. Although naturalizing content is an essential step in order to explain the nature of human cognition, and despite the great developments achieved in recent decades on the issue, no research program for the naturalization of content proved fully successful in achieving this goal. The main objective of ECOCONTENT is to explain how content emerges (this is, it aims to explain the natural origins of content) through a radical redefinition of the notion of content that makes it suitable to be naturalized through a combination of ecological psychology and the non-descriptive approach to social norms recently developed by the PI.”.