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Research

Our agenda is organized in three branches, each addressing specific problems while sharing questions about contingency, communal practices, and language.

Research branches

Each branch has designated coordinators and teams. The branches share problems and methods.

B1

Pragmatism and American Genealogies

We explore the pragmatist canon—especially Dewey, James, and Rorty—to rethink democratic institutions and situated justification practices.

Coordinators
Federico Penelas
Team
Mauro Santelli, Bruno Muntaabski
Current topics
  • Intellectual history of pragmatism
  • Politics and deliberative democracy
  • Epistemic communities across Latin America
B2

Social & Contemporary Epistemology

We study how testimony, disagreement, and institutional trust shape knowledge production in plural societies.

Coordinators
Federico Penelas, Florencia Rimoldi
Current topics
  • Collective justification and shared evidence
  • Legal epistemology and standards of proof
  • Politics of knowledge and inequality
B3

Philosophy of Language & Semantic Normativity

We investigate semantic inferentialism and philosophical pragmatics to understand how meaning guides legal and civic practices.

Coordinators
Mauro Santelli, Bruno Muntaabski
Current topics
  • Inferentialism and normativity
  • Contextualism and semantic disagreement
  • Applied philosophical pragmatics

Methods and collaborations

We hold regular seminars, writing workshops, and research projects funded by UBA, CONICET, and SADAF. Each branch organizes its own activities—colloquia, reading groups—and shares results in joint meetings.

We collaborate with researchers in Argentina, the United States, and Europe, and participate in regional networks such as the Latin American Legal Epistemology Network.