Participants
Neftalí Villanueva Fernández.
Villanueva is Profesor Titular at the Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada, Spain. Most of his work focuses on applying the philosophy of language to classical questions in the history of philosophy and to political and social problems. He is Principal Investigator on several different research projects exploring the connection between polarization and disagreement funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, the Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía, and the BBVA Foundation.
These research projects are: «Disagreement in Attitudes: Normativity, Disagreement and Affective Polarisation» (PID2019-109764RB-I00) and «Public Disagreements, Affective Polarisation and Immigration in Andalusia» (B-HUM- 2022 459- UGR18). In addition, Villanueva has been the principal investigator of the project «Disagreements and polarisation of attitudes. Opinions regarding territorial policy between 2007 and 2012 in Spain: a case study for the experimental philosophy of language», funded by the Leonardo grant from the BBVA Foundation and dedicated to analysing, from the experimental philosophy of language, the correlation between cross disagreements and the increase of polarisation in attitudes in Spain between 2007 and 2012.
The Leonardo grant made it possible to initiate this line of research into the nature of polarisation and indirect alternatives for its measurement. During the development of this project, attention was paid to a linguistic proxy different from those investigated here: cross disagreements.
Manuel Almagro Holgado.
Almagro is a Juan de la Cierva Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Valencia. Almagro holds a PhD in Philosophy (international mention, cum laude) from the University of Granada (2021), with a thesis on affective polarisation entitled «Seeing hate from afar. The concept of affective polarization reassessedHis research focuses on political epistemology, philosophy of language, and experimental philosophy. He is also keenly interested in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, and Wittgenstein’s philosophy.
His work over the last four years has focused on the study of the phenomenon of affective polarisation. Specifically, his research has focused on the analysis of the philosophical assumptions associated with the concept and the exploration of alternatives for measuring affective polarisation early on. He is a member of the first two projects mentioned above, the subject matter of which is central to the present project.
Ivar R. Hannikainen.
Hannikainen is currently a Ramón y Cajal fellow in the Department of Philosophy I at the University of Granada. He obtained a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sheffield, and went on to work in the Law Department at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. His research is in cognitive science and moral psychology, with an emphasis on applications to legal and medical decision-making.
He is Principal Investigator of the following research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, and the Fundació Víctor Grífols i Lucas: “Laboratory for Moral Science and Institutional Design” (PID2020-119791RA-I00) and “Experimental Gene-Ethics: Cognitive bases of moral attitudes towards emerging genetic and genomic technologies”. Hannikainen is also a member of the following international and national projects: «Experimental Legal Philosophy: The Concept of Law Revisited» (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany in agreement with Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Brazil; Reference: 434400506), «Reading Guilty Minds» (Schweizerische Nationalfonds (SNF), Switzerland; Ref.: 179912), and «Experimental Philosophy and New Technologies: The Social, Ethical and Normative Ethical Implications of Robotics and Human-Enhanced Technologies» (MICINN; Reference: RTI2018-098882-B-I00).
Andrea Rodríguez Gómez.
Rodríguez is the beneficiary of a contract in charge of this research project and of a Research Initiation Grant for Master students of the University of Granada. In the past she was awarded a similar grant for undergraduate students. Her work focuses on applying the conceptual tools of the philosophy of language to the study of humour used as a mechanism of political manipulation that enhances the radicalisation of subjects.