Martin Pickavé, University of Toronto

Research

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Latest funding

The Philosophical Thought of Godfrey of Fontaines
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$20,625
Medieval Philosophy
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$500,000
Freedom, spontaneity, and agency in later medieval philosophy
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$109,400

All 8 grants and awards

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The Philosophical Thought of Godfrey of Fontaines

Co-investigatorSSHRC2021Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Côté, Antoine

Keywords: history of philosophy; medieval philosophy; metaphysics; epistemology; ethics

$20,625

Medieval Philosophy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Pickavé, Martin

Keywords: history of philosophy; medieval philosophy; philosophy of action; freedom; free will; agency; emotions; human nature

$500,000

Freedom, spontaneity, and agency in later medieval philosophy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Pickavé, Martin

Keywords: free will; agency; medieval philosophy; philosophy of action; metaphysics

$109,400

James of Viterbo a late thirteenth-century master at the University of Paris

Co-investigatorSSHRC2013

Principal investigators: Côté, Antoine

Keywords: philosophy; theology; metaphysics; middle ages

$14,350

Canada Research Chair in Medieval Philosophy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Pickave, Martin

Keywords: history of philosophy, medieval philosophy, philosophy of action, freedom, free will, agency, human nature

$500,000

Individuation and individuality in later medieval philosophy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Pickavé, Martin

Keywords: medieval philosophy; ontology; problem of individuation; realism; John Duns Scotus; William of Ockham

$55,950

Things in the Mind: Cognitive Psychology in the Later Middle Ages

Principal investigatorSSHRC2009Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Pickavé, Martin

Keywords: medieval philosophy; history of psychology; concepts; soul; mental representations; intellect; perception; nature of the human mind

$17,334

Medieval theories of the emotions (passions of the soul)

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Pickavé, Martin

Keywords: medieval philosophy; emotions; history of psychology; medieval philosophy of mind

$53,271

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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