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‘Hero’ in the media The virtual intervention program ‘Hero’ was widely covered in the media from July 26 to 29. It featured 11 times (4 in the radio and 7 in online media outlets) and reached an audience of over 1,8 million readers and listeners. The notes and interviews described the positive impact of...
Start of the new PhD and MA programmes Monday 20 July saw the start of the new MA and PhD blended programmes on Philosophy of Natural and Cognitive Sciences at the PHilosophy Institute, Austral University. After a long selection process in which the Institute received more than 60 applications from all over Latin America, 25 new...
‘Hero’ Implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic On March 19, 2020, the Argentine Government decreed mandatory preventive isolation as a necessary measure to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus in Argentina. The decree established that all Argentine inhabitants must remain in their homes and established the prohibition of...
“Experimental psychology and the notion of personhood” – Call for Papers We share this Scientia et Fides call for papers for the special issue “Experimental psychology and the notion of personhood”, edited by Juan F. Franck (U. Austral), Scott Harrower (Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia) and Ryan Peterson (Biola University, Los Angeles, CA)....
The Mission of the University To speak of the University is to speak of an unsusual reality: as an institution it begins at the dawn of the 12th century and that lasts to this day; it arises in the West but is present in all countries and cultures; and it includes very different educational projects under the same term....
Philosophical and psychological study of the individuality of the personal being We share this invitation to participate in an investigation in Psychology and Philosophy led by Juan Francisco Franck, researcher at the Institute. If you are interested, please fill out this form: https://bit.ly/2WgnHYe
Philosphizing in uncertain times Pain is often presented as a trigger for philosophical questions. It may well be said that pain is an awkward way to become philosophers. Today we are all collectively assaulted by the same philosophical questions. The boring questions that we encountered in the philosophy book are...
New research in Cognitive Science of Religion Since April, Dr. María Emilia Oñate carries out her postdoctoral research based at the Institute of Philosophy with a CONICET scholarship co-financed by Austral University. She has a degree and a PhD in Psychology from the Universidad Católica Argentina. Since 2009 she has taught...
Call for the Austral-Templeton scholarships Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
Academic visitorship at the University of Oxford During January and February 2020 Dr. Claudia Vanney carried out a research stay at the Faculty of Theology and Religion of the University of Oxford. It was a fruitful opportunity to deepen in her research field and to exchange experiences with colleagues of other countries. On February 8...
New book published: “Diez fundamentos psicológicos de la conducta de ayuda” The EUNSA publishing house has just published the book “Diez fundamentos psicológicos de la conducta de ayuda” [Ten psychological foundations of helping behavior], by Belén Mesurado, researcher at the Institute of Philosophy. This book arises from the need to give an...
“A weak form of the cosmological argument” – Seminar On November 28, we received the visit of José Tomás Alvarado Marambio (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile), who gave a seminar on “A weak form of the cosmological argument”, within the framework of the Human and Divine Providence project. We present you a brief...

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