Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA) (Organisational unit)

Ryan, B. J. (Chair)

Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)

Activity: Membership › Membership of committee

Description

I am the Coordinator of the Research Group called "Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy

Period	1 Jul 2022 → 30 Jun 2026
Held at	Instituto de Filosofia da NOVA (IFILNOVA)
Degree of Recognition	International

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Forms of Life and Practices of Philosophy is a research group dedicated to the study of the relationship between philosophy and the creation of values, forms of life and transformative practices, both at an individual and a collective level. As part of the CultureLab, the group’s overarching research is focused on the relationship between value and culture and the various ways in which human values and the activity of valuing are always embedded in cultural forms of life, which have a particular context and history, and which can be changed through human agency. The group is especially concerned with the history, development and contemporary relevance of philosophy conceived as a transformative practice and its application and impact on value construction at ethical, political, and cultural levels. Bringing together ancient and contemporary approaches to the problem of ‘how to live’ and interconnected practices of self-transformation, collective transformation, value construction, ecological existence, and the art of flourishing and decay, the group develops work along two different, although interrelated, lines of research. While the two lines of research explicitly express the vision and challenge of applying philosophy to life and investigate the articulation between forms of life and practices of philosophy, the first one will be specially concerned with transformation at an individual level (self-transformation), while the second one will be focused on collective or social transformation.