Graduate Program in Philosophy

Research and Structures

 

Concentration Area

Ethics and Political Philosophy
Name Description
Ethics Principles This line of research addresses the central issues of Ethics as they have been conceived over time and under the systematic aspect, in view of scholars such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant and others. The relationship between practical and theoretical reason is a central area.
The State and Theories of Justice This line of research addresses the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of the theories of justice from scholars such as Immanuel Kant, John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, as well as their different critical and alternative views in communitarian and utilitarian theories.
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Name Description
Analytic Epistemology This line of research addresses the fundamental topics of contemporary Epistemology: theories of knowledge, theories of epistemic rationality, skepticism and epistemic paradoxes.
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics This line of research is intended to analyze the classical theories of knowledge under the perspective of the philosophers of phenomenology, which has been the norm in Europe for almost a century and has representatives all over the world.
Philosophy in the Middle Ages This line of research addresses philosophers of the Middle Ages.

Research Structures

Research Groups
Name Coordinator
Analytic Epistemology CLAUDIO GONCALVES DE ALMEIDA
Criminology, Punitive Culture and Philosophical Criticism AUGUSTO JOBIM DO AMARAL
Discourse, Politics and Integration TERESA CRISTINA SCHNEIDER MARQUES
Grupo de Pesquisa em Neurofilosofia NYTHAMAR HILARIO FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA J
Grupo de Pesquisas em Educação e Violência - GruPEV ALEXANDRE ANSELMO GUILHERME
Grupo sobre Análise de Política Externa (GAPE - PUCRS) JOAO HENRIQUE SALLES JUNG
INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY CLARICE BEATRIZ DA COSTA SOHNGEN
Interdisciplinary Research Group in Theory of Justice and Political Culture NYTHAMAR HILARIO FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA J
Motivational Processes in Educational Contexts BETTINA STEREN DOS SANTOS
PHILOSOPHY AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY AGEMIR BAVARESCO
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics FABIO CAPRIO LEITE DE CASTRO
Philosophy in the Middle Ages ROBERTO HOFMEISTER PICH
Research Group History of Ideas and Intellectual History LUIS ROSENFIELD
Research Group on Economic, Human and Environmental Development (GEDEHMA) IZETE PENGO BAGOLIN
System and Structure: From Mathematical Ontology to Biolinguistics NORMAN ROLAND MADARASZ
Systematic Philosophy: Dialectics and Legal Philosophy THADEU WEBER
Theology and Science ROBERTO HOFMEISTER PICH
Youth Observatory PUCRS/Rede Marista MARCELO BONHEMBERGER
Ética, Desconstrução e Contemporaneidade II RICARDO TIMM DE SOUZA
Research Laboratories
Name Coordinator
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Research Nucleus
Name Coordinator
Núcleo de Filosofia, Religião e Ciência ROBERTO HOFMEISTER PICH
Research Center
Name Coordinator
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas em Democracia NYTHAMAR HILARIO FERNANDES DE OLIVEIRA J
CDEA – Centro de Estudos Europeus e Alemães DRAITON GONZAGA DE SOUZA
Centro de Internacionalização da Educação Brasil-Australia ALEXANDRE ANSELMO GUILHERME