Arché (research center)
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Arché is a research centre at the University of St Andrews
, Scotland
. It was founded by Professor Crispin Wright
.
For the calendar years 2003-2007 Arché was an AHRC Research Centre with special projects that have included the Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics (2000-2006), Vagueness: its Nature and Logic (2004-6); and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality (2003-5). For the years 2008-12, the Centre will host a five-year tri-partite research programme entitled Context, Relativity and Knowledge, encompassing three interconnected broad investigations: Basic Knowledge will focus on deep-seated questions raised by those parts of our knowledge which apparently lack the support of articulable reasons; Contextualism and Relativism will be a systematic investigation into unobvious kinds of context-sensitivity and relativity; Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology, will involve a critical examination of the methodology of contemporary analytical philosophy — especially the so-called "method of cases" — in the light of debates in contemporary philosophy of language
.
A list of members can be found on the Arché website.
University of St Andrews
The University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
. It was founded by Professor Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright is a British philosopher, who has written on neo-Fregean philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein's later philosophy, and on issues related to truth, realism, cognitivism, skepticism, knowledge, and objectivity....
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For the calendar years 2003-2007 Arché was an AHRC Research Centre with special projects that have included the Logical and Metaphysical Foundations of Classical Mathematics (2000-2006), Vagueness: its Nature and Logic (2004-6); and the Metaphysics and Epistemology of Modality (2003-5). For the years 2008-12, the Centre will host a five-year tri-partite research programme entitled Context, Relativity and Knowledge, encompassing three interconnected broad investigations: Basic Knowledge will focus on deep-seated questions raised by those parts of our knowledge which apparently lack the support of articulable reasons; Contextualism and Relativism will be a systematic investigation into unobvious kinds of context-sensitivity and relativity; Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology, will involve a critical examination of the methodology of contemporary analytical philosophy — especially the so-called "method of cases" — in the light of debates in contemporary philosophy of language
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for analytic philosophers is concerned with four central problems: the nature of meaning, language use, language cognition, and the relationship between language...
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A list of members can be found on the Arché website.