Projects
A Phenomenological Treatment of Induction: Edmund Husserl on inductive reasoning and the foundation of the empirical sciences. KU Leuven
Induction is commonly regarded as a central problem for philosophy and the empirical sciences. At the same time, hardly any other problem is more tangibly present in our everyday life than induction. Our daily experience is tacitly shaped by anticipations of future behavior of natural things, artifacts, people, social infrastructures, etc. Accordingly, induction is a vital element in the formation of our empirical concepts and predictions ...
Turing and Wittgenstein: Opponent or Ally? A New Interpretation of Wittgenstein’s 1939 Cambridge Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
and of AI. Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally recognized as one of the
most influential philosophers of the 20th Century. The most intriguing
interaction between Turing and Wittgenstein was Turing’s attendance
at Wittgenstein’s lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics in
1939. Detailed notes of Wittgenstein’s 1939 lectures survive, and
...
Analysis of the moral responsibility and its antropological foundations in the thought of Max Scheler and Karol Wojtyla: reconstruction and revaluation Ghent University
In the thought of both Max Scheler and Karol Wojtyla the concept of moral responsibility and its justification plays a crucial role. In my study I would like to examine to what extend a plea for moral responisibility within the framework of "global justice" and "global ethics" can be founded on the insights of both Scheler and Wojtyla and h ow these insights can be useful as a rejection of moral indifference and passivity.
Mechanisms of Protest. The Micro-Level Foundations of Individual Protest Participation. University of Antwerp
Logic, stability and perturbation theory: novel bridges between the foundations of mathematics and operator algebras KU Leuven
As all other sciences rely on mathematics, I think of science as a building, with the ground floor being made up by mathematics. As we want to keep the building in good shape so it can grow in a creative, new and strong way, we need to take care of the foundations. Logic represents these foundations. It provides the framework for mathematics (consisting of the assumptions we work with) and general abstract tools for considering mathematical ...
Foundations of expressive timing control in music Ghent University
Timing is a crucial aspect of meaningful musical communication. In order to achieve the intended musical expression, musicians need to control their movements such that time-critical musical structures can be adequately performed. In the past, foundations of timing have been based on cognitive theory. However, we believe that an embodied approach may offer new insights that are of fundamental importance to music research. In particular, we ...
methodological foundations of physical music cognition Ghent University
The development of new technologies at IPEM will make it possible to measure gestural behavior of humans as a response to musical stimuli. Multidimensional and complex designs are needed to obtain this goal. Specific statistical methods will be developed to analyze these complex datasets. Traditional and new statistical techniques will be investigated and evaluated in order to quantify human gesture.
The Library of Voices - Unlocking the Alamire Foundation’s Music Heritage Resources Collection through Visual and Sound Technology KU Leuven
In September 2018, the Library of Voices will open in the St. Norbert’s Gate building on the Park Abbey site in Leuven, to complement the House of Polyphony. The Library of Voices will be a high-tech, innovative and interdisciplinary platform from which the KU Leuven and the Alamire Foundation will implement digital images, develop their unique collection with the Alamire Digital Lab (ADL), digitally disseminate the collection through the ...
Developing media effects as a research programme: Reconsidering the meta-theoretical, conceptual, and methodological foundations of a paradigm in crisis KU Leuven
To what extent do media messages shape people’s opinions and behaviors? Despite decades of scientific research we still have no clear answer: we know that studies only report very small effects but the meaning of those findings is heavily debated. Some scholars argue that the lack of convincing results means that the effects model fails to account for reality and should be abandoned. Others have arrived at the opposite conclusion. To them, ...