Projects

Recenty, phenomenology proved to be a philosophical movement capable of bringing significant contributions to a wide interdisciplinary landscape. Beyond the ongoing debates concerning the various configurations and adaptations of the phenomenological method to different research fields, there is still a need to better grasp its the boundaries. (PD Project Director: Dr. Alexandru BEJINARIU)

This research project aims to provide a phenomenological account to the problem of limit-phenomena in phenomenology, by resorting to the notion of nonsense and its plurality of forms: the “refusal of sense” (i.e., what is inherently not given to consciousness), the “surpassing of sense” (i.e., what is exceeding the consciousness), and the “withdrawal of sense” (i.e., what is withdrawing our production of sense). (PD Project Director: Dr. Remus BREAZU)

The project aims to bring phenomenology into dialogue with the effervescent research conducted in contemporary gesture studies, an interdisciplinary conglomerate comprising cognitive analysis, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, psychology, linguistics and ethnographic study as well as, more recently, film and media studies. (PCE Project Director: Dr. Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ)

The present project offers an in-depth analysis of philosophical thought under the communist regime in Romania, combining hermeneutical analysis with comparative, historical, and quantitative research. (PCE Project Director: Dr. Alexandru CISTELECAN)

The underlying premise of our project is that only a phenomenology which is open to historical hermeneutics and which develops its analyses in the horizon of a philosophical anthropology of the subject is able to capture adequately the fundamental structures of the experience of testimony and to account for the new dimension of subjectivity… (TE Project Director: Dr. Paul MARINESCU)

The project concerns the relation between philosophy and empirical research in the first half of the 20th century in two of the most important schools of continental philosophy: phenomenology and critical theory. (TE Project Director: Dr. Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ)

This project aims to capture the complexity of the phenomenological perspectives on history by focusing on Paul Ricœur and Jan Patočka’s theories on this topic. The premise from which this research work starts is that intertwining the historical life and the reflection on history provides new insights in the understanding of history. (TE Project Director: Dr. Paul MARINESCU)

The goal of this project is to offer an existential-phenomenological interpretation of the account of political judgment sketched by Arendt (starting from Kant), meant to clarify the relevance of judging politically for the personal identity of the judging individual. (PD Project Director: Dr. Ileana BORȚUN)

The main goal of the project is to change the approach to Brentano’s psychology from analysis of it as a work of the philosophy of mind – which it undoubtedly is to a great extent – to investigation of it from the viewpoint of the method and concept of science as found in A. Comte and J. St. Mill. (PCE Project Director: Dr. Ion TĂNĂSESCU)

The present project concerns the debates over the nature of divination (μαντεία) in Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium (2nd-7th centuries). It proposes a new approach of late antique religious thought, based mostly on understudied Neoplatonic texts, highlighting their mutual interaction with Early Christian texts dealing with similar topics. (PCE Project Director: Dr. Andrei TIMOTIN)

In this project we intend to discuss the relationship thinking–action from a perspective combining methods and approaches pertaining to several philosophical disciplines. (TE Project Director: Dr. Bogdan MINCĂ)

The present project is focused on the history of Greek Neoplatonism, the tradition that dominated philosophical reflection during Late Antiquity (II–VI centuries CE). (TE Project Director: Dr. Marilena VLAD)

Since A.-J. Festugiere’s pioneering study “Proclus et la religion traditionnelle” (1966), several important researches have been devoted to the philosophical piety in Late Antiquity in the last three decades. (TE Project. Director: Dr. Andrei TIMOTIN)

This project is placed in the context of Late Antiquity, at the crossroads of the Neoplatonic philosophical thought and of the Christian theological meditation, focusing on the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. (PD Project. Director: Dr. Marilena VLAD)

The project aims to develop a new interpretation of the problem of intentionality and of the relationship between Brentano’s empirical and descriptive psychology. (PCE Project. Director: Dr. Ion TĂNĂSESCU)

In the 20th Century, philosophy and cultural anthropology went through a hermeneutic turn, which influenced the central debates of both disciplines. (PD Project. Director: Dr. Gabriel CERCEL)

In order to elucidate the phenomenological complexity of the oblivion and to situate this analysis into the larger frame of a philosophy of human fallibility, I will proceed to a comparative study, taking into account three positions on forgetting and existential historicity, belonging to Paul Ricœur, Jan Patočka and Alexandru Dragomir. (PD Project. Director: Dr. Paul MARINESCU)

Ethics experts and media organizations have been concerned in the last decade with the new moral challenges coming from online journalism and the need to readjust the present deontological codes for journalists. (PD Project. Director: Dr. Victor POPESCU)

In this project, we envision an interdisciplinary research of human corporeality as situated within the complex psychological, social, and religious matrix of contemporary Western civilization. (TE Project. Director: Dr. Cristian CIOCAN)

The project deals with the problem of tradition in phenomenology. To this extent, it aims to combine the structural perspectives offered by three great areas of phenomenological research: memory, habit and sedimentation. (TE Project. Director: Dr. Christian FERENCZ-FLATZ)