Submitted by Ruby Ng on Fri, 15/11/2024 - 16:36
Congratulations to Dr Tony Street, Assistant Director of Research in the Faculty of Divinity on the award to him and an international consortium of partners of an ERC Synergy Grant worth around 10 million euros in total and £1.8M to Cambridge.
The Synergy Grant will fund a project entitled ‘RevLogRedux – Logic in Reverse Redux. Illegitimate Argumentative Moves in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Medieval Traditions’. The other key partners in the consortium are
- Prof. Leone Gazziero of the CNRS (France);
- Dr. des. Roberta Padlina of UNIGE (Université de Genève, Switzerland); and
- Prof. Shahid Rahman of the Université de Lille (France).
The project, which has a planned duration of six years, is designed to map and investigate the reflection on logical fallacy worked out by medieval thinkers in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions in Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew in an era when philosophy and theology were especially closely related. It will make this critical material accessible via a digital infrastructure of scholarly editions and translations and a fully searchable encyclopaedia stocked with corpora of medieval fallacies and their informal and formal analyses — every part of it open access.
RevLogRedux is one of four ERC Synergy Grants awarded to the University of Cambridge in the latest round and it is only the second such grant ever awarded to the School of Arts and Humanities. One of the largest research grants ever received by the Faculty of Divinity, it will support the work of Dr Street as PI together with three postdoctoral researchers. We offer the heartiest congratulations to Tony and all the team, along with best wishes for the success of this groundbreaking project.