GLOBAL PRESENTATION - www.officinalis,org (www.cehfci.org) 1. CEHFCi is composed by members of several universities. A core belongs to different U.E. Depart.: Physics, History, Philosophy and Education; work in History and Philosophy of Science, in close articulation with the Scientific Museum Studies/Cultural Heritage Scientific and Educational Sciences. The CEHFCi is an inter-university unit that maintains a joint work / network with members from the Fac. Sciences and Faculty of Pharmacy – U.L. , Fac. Medical Sciences - UNL; Lusophone University of Humanities/ Technology, University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Polytechnic Institute of Beja. Are still considered member: 1. Investigator Program Science Commitment 2008; 2. a post-doctoral research fellow (FCT). At the University of Évora - financial and institutional interlocutor CEHFCi to the Foundation of Science and Technology - all research units are institutionally implanted in Advanced Scientific Research Board ( IIFA) - which allows scientific connections with research units, doctoral programs/Eramus Programs. The unit considers all students in the PhD Program in History and Philosophy of Science/other programs as junior’s members (especially in History and Education Sciences): the CEHFCi integrated members have a role of supervisors. As members associated we have researchers integrated with other FCT unit which interacts with the CEHFCi. Scientific organization: CEHFCi is a research unit with a Direction Board (1 Director and 4 vowels PhD); a Scientific Council with all affiliated members (PhD); 1 scientific coordinator of the PHYSIS project; 1 Scientific Steering Committee (D. POULOT, JL Peset; B. Bensaude-VINCET) – the annual reports are considered in order to get a better scientific policy; 1 internal/informal Scientific Editorial Committee in progress (for articles, books chapters, papers). The unit research has ONLY ONE PROJECT: PHYSIS. Direction council board – a Director (mfn@uevora.pt) and four members representing the institutional Unit Scientific board – two scientific meetings six monthly - in Évora or Lisbon – with all Unit members (PhD and training PhD) with a scientific seminar Direction management: The director liaises with Direction Board member, implements all necessary measures to run the unit, and organizes Scientific Board meetings with the steering Committee, prepares the annual report and supervises the financial management of budget. The most important scientific integrative activities – the preparation of the PhD History and Philosophy of Science course, with the possibility of specialty mention in Museology. The mandatory and optional seminars are a scientific responsibility of the research unit members and reflect the research in progress of the CEHFCi. In order to have a multidisciplinary glance of the work in progress the Direction organizes twice a year the mandatory private «scientific journeys of the unit». Based in this methodology the CEHFCi has presented different proposals to the FCT call projects during 2010 and has pursuit the former FCT project PHYSIS project unit research. The unit has a regular participation in the general dissemination – e.g.: participation and co-organization of the open course History of Health Sciences (Lisbon University); the Military Scientific Lectures: Memory, Science and Arts. Regular participation in the Official «Alive Science» programmers with schools and general public. The CEHFCi has scientific ability to support requests for arbitration scientific FCT, magazines, private institutions, state - scientific organizations SCIENTIFIC POLICY: MAIN STREAM: RESEARCH IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE To maintain a strong mainstream among researchers: history and philosophy of science- 18th- 20th centuries. To enhance history and philosophy of science with straight connection to the PhD Program of History and Philosophy of Science (with mention of specialist in Museology) as well as with PD program History, Contemporary History, Education, Information and Documentation Sciences, Philosophy. In the context of development research in History and Philosophy of Science – history of ideas – public understanding of science - history of scientific culture with network items: 1. Science Education: experimental cultural in the context of science education; use for advanced studies (and also public scientific recreation) historical experiences: scientific instruments, educational objects, images, photos, education books, historical printed lectures. 2. Museum Studies and Scientific Cultural Heritage: the PhD program - CEHFCi) involves: the reflection (and research) about theories and actions and heritage museum in Portugal, European and global context considering the contribution of the History and Philosophy of Science literature. In this context the CEHFCi has in mind that the scientific heritage is built on the practices of scientific and technological research as part of cultural heritage, a very important historical contribution about the process of teaching and the dissemination of science. The open fields do scientific discussion: the history of museums and collections in the historical context of theirs scientific institutions and the public policy of preservation in order to understand their role and their historical in different spaces of science and technology: an open debate to the contemporary society challenges. This group includes a cultural research on Libraries and Cultural Heritage in a straight connection with the context of public sphere (18th -19th centuries). The expected results of these network advance scientific CEHFCi work. an area of multidisciplinary research: history of science and education / philosophy of science and museology and collecting / material culture of science / history of scientific culture / history of science and history of public health and medicine. APRESENTAÇÃO GLOBAL - www.officinalis, org (www.cehfci.org) 1. CEHFCi é composto por membros de diversas universidades. Um núcleo pertence a U.E. – áreas de Física, História, Filosofia e Educação com trabalho em História e Filosofia da Ciência, em estreita articulação com o Museologia Científica / Património Cultural e Científico e Cultura científica e Educação. O CEHFCi é uma unidade inter-universitária que mantém um trabalho conjunto / rede com os membros da Fac. Ciências e Faculdade de Farmácia - U.L. , Fac. Ciências Médicas - UNL; Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades / Tecnologia da Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Instituto Politécnico de Beja. São ainda membros: 1. Investigador Compromisso do Programa Ciência 2008, 2. um bolseiro de investigação pós-doutoramento (FCT). A Universidade de Évora é o interlocutor financeiro e institucional do CEHFCi perante a Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia. A unidade está integrada no Instituo de Investigação e Formação Avançada_IIFA que permite conexão com outras unidades de investigação e programas de doutoramento e Erasmus Mundus. A unidade considera todos os alunos do Programa de Doutoramento em História e Filosofia da Ciência / e de outros programas, como membros juniores (especialmente em História e Ciências da Educação): os membros CEHFCi integrados têm um papel de supervisores nestes programas de PhD. Como membros associados, temos investigadores integrados em outras unidades da FCT, que interagem com o CEHFCi. Organização científica: CEHFCi é uma unidade de investigação com um Conselho Directivo (1 director e quatro vogais PhD), um Conselho Científico com todos os membros filiados (PhD), 1 coordenador científico do projecto PHYSIS; um Comité Científico de Acompanhamento Científico (D. POULOT, JL Peset; B. Bensaude-Vincet) - os relatórios anuais são considerados para melhorar a política científica. TEM em preparação um Comité Editorial Científico (para artigos, capítulos de livros, jornais). A unidade de pesquisa tem apenas um projeto: PHYSIS. Direcção -Director e quatro membros que representam a unidade institucional conselho científico - duas reuniões científicas semestral - em Évora ou Lisboa - com todos os membros da Unidade. O director é o elemento de ligação com membros do Conselho de Direção, implementa as medidas necessárias para gerir a unidade, e organiza as reuniões do Conselho Científico, prepara o relatório anual e supervisionar a gestão financeira do orçamento. O mais importante científica actividades integradoras - a preparação do PhD História e Filosofia do curso de Ciências, com a possibilidade de mencionar especialidade em Museologia. Os seminários obrigatórios e opcionais são uma responsabilidade científica dos membros da unidade de pesquisa e reflectir a investigação em curso do CEHFCi. Para ter um olhar multidisciplinar do trabalho em andamento a Direção organiza duas vezes por ano «jornadas científicas da unidade». Com base nesta metodologia a CEHFCi apresentou diversas propostas para os projectos da FCT da CALL de 2010 fortalecendo, assim, o PHYSIS . A unidade tem uma participação regular na divulgação geral de conhecimentos pela sociedade: participação e co-organização do histórico do curso aberto de Ciências da Saúde (Universidade de Lisboa); Militar Científico Palestras: Memória, Ciência e Artes. A participação regular no programa «Ciência Viva», com as escolas e público em geral. O CEHFCi tem capacidade científica para apoiar os pedidos de arbitragem FCT científicas, revistas, instituições privadas, estatais - organizações científicas POLÍTICA CIENTÍFICA: MAIN STREAM: PESQUISA EM HISTÓRIA E FILOSOFIA DA CIÊNCIA, TECNOLOGIA E MEDICINA Para manter uma forte corrente entre os investigadores: história e filosofia da ciência, séculos XVIII – XX em estreita ligação com programas de doutoramento em História e Filosofia da Ciência em ligação com outros programas a que os membros do CEHFCi estão ligados, através de seminários de investigação. No âmbito da investigação em História e Filosofia da Ciência desenvolve-se investigação em história das ideias; compreensão pública da ciência; a história da cultura científica. Em estreita ligação com PHYSIS desenvolvem-se pólos de investigação em Educação e Cultura Científica, onde se inclui a cultural experimental no contexto da educação científica, a utilização de estudos avançados (e também de recreação científica público), o uso de experiências históricas: instrumentos científicos, objectos educacionais, imagens, fotos, livros sobre educação. No campo da Museologia e Património Cultural Científica: o Programa de Doutoramento - CEHFCi) envolve: a reflexão (e) pesquisa sobre teorias e acções e um museu do património em Portugal, o contexto europeu e mundial, considerando a contribuição da História e Filosofia da Ciência da actual agenda de literatura científica. Neste contexto, o CEHFCi tem em mente que o património científico é construído sobre as práticas de investigação científica e tecnológica como parte do património cultural, uma contribuição muito importante histórico sobre o processo de ensino e de divulgação da ciência. Campos abertos ao debate científico: a história dos museus e colecções no contexto das respectivas instituições científicas e das políticas públicas de preservação, a fim de compreender o seu papel e a sua histórica em diferentes espaços de ciência e tecnologia: um debate aberto ao contemporâneo desafios da sociedade. Este grupo do PHYSIS inclui ainda uma investigação sobre Bibliotecas e Património Cultural no contexto da esfera pública (séculos XVIII-XX). Resultados esperados: contributo para a agenda nacional e internacional de uma área de investigação multidisciplinar a partir do FOCUS de história e filosofia da ciência: história da ciência e da educação / Filosofia da ciência e da museologia e recolha / cultura material da ciência / história da cultura científica / história da ciência e história da saúde pública e medicina.

10.2 Summary in English for general dissemination purposes “PRAXIS–Centro de Filosofia Política e Cultura” is a practical philosophy unit that carries out philosophical fundamental and applied research in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of culture and contemporary philosophy, particularly phenomenology. In the field of ethics, the PRAXIS team researches questions of practical rationality, moral motivation for action, universalism and responsibility. Particular attention is given to virtue ethics and existential ethics, both focused on answering the socratic question “how should we live?”. In applied ethics, research deals with ethical questions that arise in the fields of politics, communication (journalism and organisational communication), the environment and technology. Ethical problems emerging from the use of algorithms in programming machines and everyday life, as well as bioethical issues, are also researched. In the field of political and social philosophy, involving the work of both philosophers and political scientists, part of the research will be theoretical and part will be applied, with plans to intersect conceptual research with empirical case studies. On the more theoretical side, research will deal with the political thought of classical, modern and contemporary philosophers. On the applied side, the research intersects philosophical reflection on theories of democracy with an empirical approach to the “quality of democracy”. In the area of social philosophy, the research object will be the relationships between individual, society and economics. One important focus is on the category of work, with the goals of questioning the connection between work and receiving an income, as well as the extension and application of distributive justice to work, looking towards a “post-growth” society. Research on politics includes a project on “Human rights and migration”. Based on theoretical, ethical and political debate between the “foundationist” and political or “functionalist” approaches of human rights, the project aims to further ethical and political approaches to the issue and rethink the relationship between migration, poverty and climate change, taking into account the human right to freedom of movement and to a life with dignity in a preserved natural world. In the field of phenomenology, the research includes a phenomenological approach to ethical issues, particularly moral motivation, and an analysis of our technological lifeworld, seen from the standpoint of the affective dispositions of our experience of being-in-the-world. On the applied side, understanding modes of failed existence will be considered in connection with “phenomenological-existential” therapeutic treatments. The PRAXIS Centre also performs research on philosophy of culture and dedicates particular attention to the question of “religion and violence”. The latter case reflects the relationship between appropriations of sacred “founding texts” and their repercussions for today's political and social events. 10.3 Summary in English for evaluation PRAXIS – Centro de Filosofia Política e Cultura is a practical philosophy unit that performs philosophical research in 5 fields with connections among them: A) Ethics, B) Political philosophy, C) Philosophy of culture, D) Phenomenology and therapy, E) Religion and violence. Each of these fields contains a fundamental theoretical reflection component and an applied or empirical component. Objectives are defined and projects are implemented in each field. A) In the field of ethics, there will be work on theoretical ethics and applied ethics. On the more theoretical side, based on the results obtained, work will pursue practical rationality, decision-making and moral motivation for action in virtue ethics and existential ethics. Important theoretical research will involve delving further into some ethical questions relevant to applied ethics, particularly the question of individual and collective “responsibility” as well as the issue of “universalism” vs. particularism, an important matter for considering human rights and the relationship between ethics and politics. The applied ethics component will include research on ethical issues posed in the areas of politics, communication, technology and biomedical sciences. In communication ethics, research will be carried out on the ethics of journalism, ethics applied to institutional communication, with a project dedicated to the ethics of governmental communication, the aim of which is to put into action concepts and instruments to assess the ethics of public communication practices used by governing authorities and those in charge of public bodies. B) In the field of political philosophy, part of the theoretical research will be intersected with empirical case studies carried out by political scientists. There will be 5 lines or projects in this field: 1) The more theoretical component will develop work on the political thought of classical and contemporary authors. 2) Also on the theoretical side, case studies will be developed on philosophy and theory of democracy, specifically a collective study on “Philosophies of democracy, from Aristotle to nowadays”. 3) On a theoretical and practical level, a project will be carried out involving philosophers and political scientists, in which a philosophical reflection on theories and conceptions of democracy intersects with an empirical analysis of what is called the “quality of democracy”. The project’s aim will be to question the criteria used to empirically evaluate the quality of democracies regarding their epistemological, normative and political premises. 4) In the domain of social philosophy, the object of research will be relationships between individual, society and economy. The essential object of research will deal with the category of work, with the aims of: first, questioning the connection between work and receiving an income, within a philosophical grounding for an unconditional basic income, and second to think about broadening distributive justice to work in a post-growth society. 5) We have included a three-year project on “Human rights and migration” in the politics field. Based on theoretical, ethical and political debate between the “foundationist” and political or “functionalist” approaches of human rights, the project aims to: i) survey the different ethical and political approaches to the issue; ii) rethink the relationship between migration, poverty and climate change based on respect for human rights to freedom of movement, to a life with dignity and a healthy environment; iii) demonstrate the inefficiency and injustice of the current international refugee system. C) In the field of philosophy of culture, three research objectives have been set. The more theoretical objective aims to explain and question the concept of culture based on cultural theories developed by classical and contemporary philosophers (Cassirer, Simmel). There will then be a reflection on philosophical thought in Portuguese, including not only philosophers but also essayists. D) In the field of phenomenology and therapy, research will go in three directions: 1) The phenomenological approach to ethical issues, particularly moral motivation. 2) The phenomenological approach to ways of life in our technological world, through an analysis of symbolic forms (Cassiorer), the culturally determining prestructures of understanding and affective dispositions in our experience of being-in-the-world. 3) Application of the phenomenological perspective to understanding pathological behaviours and to “phenomenological-existential” therapies. E) In the “Religion and violence” issue, the aim is to use founding “sacred texts”, their later interpretations and appropriations, secondary critical studies and today’s social and political events to reflect upon and question the causal relationships between them and the processes of (de)legitimation of various forms of violence, from physical coercion to symbolic violence. Taking into account approaches and contributions from social and human sciences and philosophy, studies will be carried out on the following topics: “Religion, images/mediatisation, violence”, “Religion, humour and violence”, “Religion, violence and politics”. – CONFERENCES, PUBLICATIONS: National and international conferences and seminars are planned to be held at the unit’s sites in all five research fields, and researchers will participate in (external) national and international conferences. Individual and collective articles and books will be published in the five fields. – Internationalisation and cooperation with other units: There is extensive exchange and cooperation in all 5 research fields with practical or contemporary research groups and units in France, Spain, Belgium and Brazil. Cooperation agreements have been signed with two research groups at Brazilian universities, with one French unit and groups at two Portuguese units. O centro “PRAXIS - Centro de Filosofia Política e Cultura” é uma unidade de filosofia prática que desenvolve investigação filosófica, fundamental e aplicada, em ética, filosofia política, filosofia da cultura e filosofia contemporânea, em especial fenomenologia. Na área da ética, a equipa do PRAXIS investiga questões da racionalidade prática, motivação moral da acção, universalismo e responsabilidade. Especial atenção é dada às éticas das virtudes e da existência, centradas na resposta à questão “como viver?”. Em ética aplicada, a investigação incide em questões éticas que se colocam nas áreas da política, da comunicação (jornalismo e comunicação das organizações), do ambiente e da tecnologia. São investigados problemas éticos resultantes do uso de algoritmos na programação de máquinas e da vida quotidiana, e questões de bioética. Na área da filosofia política e social, onde trabalham filósofos e cientistas políticos, uma parte da investigação será teórica e outra mais aplicada, prevendo-se o cruzamento da investigação conceptual com estudos de casos empíricos. Na vertente mais teórica, a investigação incidirá sobre o pensamento político de filósofos clássicos, modernos e contemporâneos. Na vertente aplicada, a investigação cruza uma reflexão filosófica sobre teorias da democracia com a abordagem empírica da “qualidade da democracia”. No domínio da filosofia social o objecto de investigação serão as relações entre indivíduo, sociedade e economia. Um foco importante incide sobre a categoria do trabalho, tendo por objectivos o questionamento da conexão entre trabalho e obtenção de rendimento, bem como o alargamento e a aplicação da ideia de justiça distributiva ao trabalho, no horizonte de uma sociedade de “pós-crescimento”. A investigação em política inclui um projecto sobre “Direitos humanos e migrações”. Partindo do debate teórico, ético-político, entre a via “fundacionista” e a via política ou “funcionalista” dos direitos humanos, o projecto tem por objectivos aprofundar as abordagens éticas e políticas da questão e repensar a relação entre migração, pobreza e mudança climática, tendo em conta o direito humano à liberdade de movimento e a uma vida digna num mundo natural preservado. Na área da fenomenologia a investigação inclui a abordagem fenomenológica de questões éticas, em particular a da motivação moral, e uma análise das formas de vida na civilização técnica, vistas na perspectiva das modalidades afectivas da experiência do ser-no-mundo. Numa vertente aplicada, a compreensão de formas de vida fracassadas é pensada em articulação com intervenções terapêuticas de índole «fenomenológico-existencial». O Centro PRAXIS desenvolve ainda investigação em filosofia da cultura e dedica especial atenção à problemática “religião e violência”. Neste último caso, é reflectida a relação entre as apropriações de textos sagrados fundadores e as suas repercussões em acontecimentos políticos e sociais actuais.