Postgraduate Program in Philosophy - UFMG

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Modern Philosophy researchers investigate the philosophy of the period from the beginning of Modernity (figures of the Renaissance, Montaigne, authors of the English and French 17th century) to the German Philosophy of the first half of the 19th century.

More specifically, the research group has the following research strengths: the presence of skepticism in modern philosophy; the relationship between science, religion and philosophy; the beginning of modernity in the European continent (including the beginning of the British Modernity and, in this, in particular Locke in the 17th century, and Hume and Scottish philosophy in the 18th), and in the Americas (including the beginning of the Luso-Brazilian Modernity); Kant and German Idealism; dissolution of the Hegelian school, and the presence of women and the feminine theme in modern philosophy.

In its extension and diversity, the Contemporary Philosophy the research carried out in the PPG within the scope of so-called continental contemporary philosophy (especially German and French, and its ramifications in Europe and other parts of the world), understood as extending from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century, and having as its scope: (I) main issues; (II) currents of thought; (III) disciplinary fields; (IV) current themes and objects, namely: (I) questions relating to the subject, language, consciousness and being; (II) phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, critical theory, French post-structuralism; (III) ontology, epistemology, practical and social philosophy, the philosophy of technique; (IV) epistemic questions, the interface of philosophy with the human sciences, the culture industry and the control devices of contemporary societies, new technologies and their applications.

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