Grupo de Investigação | Research Group:

Epistemologia e Metodologia | Epistemology and Methodology

This research area started its activities in the John Templeton Foundation Project "Implementing the Extended Synthesis in Evolutionary Biology into the Sociocultural Domain". As a result, it will continue this line of work by advancing the study of the Extended Synthesis in biology from and inter- and trans-disciplinary approach.

It also aims at developing universal heuristics of all known evolutionary mechanism, to identify the universal units whereupon and the levels whereat these evolutionary mechanisms are active, and investigate how these units and levels form nested hierarchies. In order to attain its goals, it has been created the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, where this work will be carried out.