Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL170100131
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$3,194,989.00
Summary
Simulating subjective experience: a new paradigm in immersive visualisation. This project aims to harness emerging immersive visualisation technology, pioneering a new approach to the study of subjective experience. The project expects to develop a transformative research tool, a virtual Perception Environment that simulates seeing through the eyes of another, with the larger social goal of transforming capacity to understand stigmatised and devalued populations, and of effectively remediating t ....Simulating subjective experience: a new paradigm in immersive visualisation. This project aims to harness emerging immersive visualisation technology, pioneering a new approach to the study of subjective experience. The project expects to develop a transformative research tool, a virtual Perception Environment that simulates seeing through the eyes of another, with the larger social goal of transforming capacity to understand stigmatised and devalued populations, and of effectively remediating the effects of stigmatisation and prejudice. The expected outcome of the project is to advance societal understanding of the experience of ageing, and substantially develop our capacity to promote empathy and to remediate the problem of stigmatisation. This will position Australia as a leader in a new area of Visualisation, engendering a powerful means of knowledge transfer.Read moreRead less
Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL170100160
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$2,568,846.00
Summary
A philosophy of medicine for the 21st century. This project aims to develop a new theory of health and disease to accommodate developments in contemporary biology such as the ‘developmental origins of health and disease’, the role of the microbiome in physiology, and the fact that our bodies are sites of evolutionary conflict between multiple genomes, particularly in early life. Present science does not fit with common-sense ideas about the identity and the goals of living systems and the projec ....A philosophy of medicine for the 21st century. This project aims to develop a new theory of health and disease to accommodate developments in contemporary biology such as the ‘developmental origins of health and disease’, the role of the microbiome in physiology, and the fact that our bodies are sites of evolutionary conflict between multiple genomes, particularly in early life. Present science does not fit with common-sense ideas about the identity and the goals of living systems and the project expects to generate a close collaboration between philosophers and biomedical scientists so that new ideas about health and disease can be fed back into proof-of-principle projects for innovative new approaches to the study of health and disease. The project will conduct methodologically innovative research in the philosophy of medicine, working in close collaboration with biomedical scientists to confront the transformational discoveries about the nature of living systems that have been made in the first years of the current century and to actively shape new forms of enquiry into health that reflect those discoveries. It will make the discipline of philosophy an active participant in the creation of integrative biomedical research.Read moreRead less