Capes-Print Subjectivity and Nature, coordinated by Professor Edgar Marques, brings together professors from the Graduate Program in Philosophy at UERJ and from several foreign universities, such as: Technische Universität Berlin, Université Paris-Nanterre, Stevens Institute of Technology, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Portuguese Catholic University, Université Sorbonne – Center Léon Robin.

Over the next few years, within the framework of this project, UERJ professors will conduct research at these universities. We will also receive teachers from these institutions. Sandwich doctorates are also planned for our doctoral students at these institutions.

The overall theme of the project is as follows: SUBJECTIVITY AND NATURE

– Justification: Subjectivity has a central place in philosophical thought from Modernity on, and its critical analysis provides us with a privileged guideline towards understanding a large extent of the debates that arise within the complex contemporary philosophy setting. This setting, indeed, is dominated by discussions about the overcoming or transformation of subjectivity’s paradigm, which finds in Cartesian Cogito its original figure. Such multifaceted notion, involving a wide range of concepts that ultimately refer to self-consciousness and self-determination phenomena, establishes a paradigm for the understanding of human subject as the ground of his representations, norms, values and actions that rises the complex issue of its relation to nature and echoes through all diversified fields within philosophy. To investigate historically and systematically the concepts and issues at stake in this paradigm constitutes a crucial task in order to accomplish its transformation or overcoming.