The University of Notre Dame Australia will host a $3.5 million share of a prestigious grant in its Centre for the History of Philosophy for a project examining methods of logical argumentation across the Abrahamic philosophical traditions.
The newly appointed Professor of Medieval Arabic Philosophy, Tony Street, will lead the project.
The funding forms part of the European Research Council Synergy project “Logic in Reverse Redux: Illegitimate Argumentative Moves in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew, and Latin Medieval Traditions, known as RevLogRedux.
This is a €9.97 million ($16.3 million) international collaboration led by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, with partners including University of Geneva, the University of Lille, the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Södertörn University and McGill University.
Notre Dame University’s role in the RevLogRedux project places it among a select few Australian institutions to receive ERC Synergy Grant funding and represents one of the most significant research achievements in the university’s history.
Vice Chancellor Francis Campbell said ERC Synergy Grants support ambitious, multi-team projects at the highest level.
“Hosting this funding and welcoming Professor Street and his team is an outstanding opportunity and achievement and a significant endorsement of our growing international research reputation,” Professor Campbell said.
CHOP Co-Director Professor David Bronstein said the grant aligned directly with the centre’s research strengths in philosophy in the Abrahamic traditions.
“RevLogRedux ranges over a long history of Jewish, Christian and Muslim intellectual exchange and the project will make a major contribution to CHOP’s specialisation in Abrahamic philosophical traditions,” Professor Bronstein said.
“The grant allows us to build a strong team, support early career researchers and make a major contribution to the Australian humanities.”
Professor Street said he was delighted to be joining Notre Dame and to bring RevLogRedux to CHOP.
“What excites me most is the chance to study logic as a shared intellectual project across Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Byzantine traditions, and to show how Jewish, Christian and Muslim thinkers shaped one another’s reasoning in the medieval world.”
Notre Dame’s ERC funding will support a multi-year research team across the Arabic/Islamic and Hebrew/Jewish traditions, alongside affiliated international collaborators.
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