Projects
Qualitative insights into conduction in molecular electronic devices using the Source-and-sink potential method and density functional theory based chemical concepts. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Knowledge Representation with partial functions and intensional concepts: theory and applications KU Leuven
Most of the knowledge representation formalisms assume that functions are total. However, in many applications, partial functions represent some concepts naturally. Furthermore, we are often limited to the extensions of concepts (their value), so we can not express knowledge about their meaning (intensions).
Different applications and experiments of the IDP system show that extending the FO(.) language with partial functions and ...
The ‘I’ in CLIL. ‘Integration’ in a context of Content and Language Integrated Learning: focus on the collaboration between subject and foreign language teachers and the consequences of this collaboration for their Pedagogical Practices. KU Leuven
CLIL is an educational innovation that was officially launched in Flanders in September 2014. The acronym CLIL stands for 'Content and Language Integrated Learning'. Hence, the name itself refers to a form of 'integration' between both the content and the (foreign) language. This integration is also referred to by the term 'dual focus' (Flemish Government, 2014, p. 7). Since it is assumed that CLIL teachers work in an 'integrated' way, i.e. ...
Expiring rhetoric: expression theory in the Anglo-American academy and its discursive context, 1880s-1920s. KU Leuven
This PhD dissertation investigates the relationship between literature and rhetoric in the Anglo-American world in the period between 1900 and 1940. It challenges the critical narrative, engendered in the modernist period itself, about the anti-rhetorical stance of modernist literature and modernist writers. The prevailing account of the modernist movement is that it rebelled against the literary conventions of the past, revolutionized poetic ...
Thomas Aquinas's theory of self cognition in context KU Leuven
Whether self-cognition of the human mind is unmediated or mediated through cognition of extramental things is one of the most disputed questions among medieval philosophers. Thomas Aquinas made a great contribution to this debate, because he puts forward an innovative theory of self-cognition inspired by the Aristotelian tradition. Specifically, he believes that in its natural state, the human mind always cognizes itself through the mediation ...
Studying Medieval Hylomorphism Whole: Hylomorphic Theory in Intellectual Context, 1250-1400 KU Leuven
Meta-Analysis in the Context of Psychological Theory Development KU Leuven
Psychology is currently facing a reproducibility crisis. It has been proposed that this replication crisis may be rooted in issues of theory development. Theory development is still seen as a creative process, to which methodological norms are hardly ever applied. We propose that meta-analytical techniques can serve as valuable tools in the methodological framework for theory development in Psychology. Meta-analysis was developed as a method ...
Assessment of potential in the context of work: Toward a theory of temporality and age-graded patterns KU Leuven
From Aristotle’s classic Nicomachean Ethics to Abraham Maslow’s more recent Theory on Human Motivation, the realization of human potential has long appealed to the imagination of scholars in various disciplines. Today, the notion of self-actualization has developed into the ideal of Western societies (Twenge, 2014). This ideal is particularly visible in the context of work where jobs are portrayed as opportunities for ...