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Centre for Philosophical Psychology University of Antwerp
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The overarching theme of research is the possibility and the limits of a naturalistic explanation of mental activities and properties. How is it possible to reconcile the subjective experience of oneself as the source or centre of one's acting, perceiving and intending with the scientific image of the human being as a complex biological organism, functioning in a physical world? What is the relation between our spontaneous, unreflected ...
Jan Potters University of Antwerp
Foundations of the Exact Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel
From the birth of science, mathematics and physics have played a major role and their evolution has always been closely connected. Pythagoras, Aristotle, Ezeno, Euclid, Archimedes, etc . . . till our times, Riemann, Hilbert, Einstein, Poincare, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, Dirac, Von Neumann, Godel, etc . . . Have all wandered between mathematics and theoretical physics, investigating the fundamental scientific problems of their times. In this ...