Projects
Moral Realism as a Normative Doctrine: Rethinking Politicized Realism. University of Antwerp
Towards a New Cinematic Realism. The Cinema of Wang Bing. University of Antwerp
Thomas Aquinas on Epistemic Realism KU Leuven
Thomas Aquinas on Epistemic Realism In current philosophical research there is a revival of realism, and within it, a renewed search for principles of thinking and for the grounds of epistemology, especially in analytic philosophy. Metaphysical realism appears to be the best available background theory for the concept of truthmakers which plays such a central role in current epistemic realism. For many realists, Thomas Aquinas still is a ...
'It's Some Kind Of Magic': Exploring the usefulness of the term 'Magical Realism' for contemporary arabic literature Ghent University
By a close reading of six Arabophone novels that originate from diverse geographical, cultural and religious settings, this project investigates to what extent magical realism's genre theory, mainly based on Latin-American examples, offers a fruitful framework for analyzing Arabic novels that are considered magical realist, and whether this framework needs to be adapted to the specific local context.
Dutch Experimental Realism of the 1960s - Reading Documentary Literature through Autobiographical Genres Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Assaying the modern structural realism in science philosophy with the help of Alfred North Whitehead's way of thinking. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Depressive realism and implicit self-esteem Ghent University
Depressed people seem to be more objective than non-depressed people when they assess the extent to which they control key events of their environment. We will examine whether this depressive-realism effect is related to implicit self-esteem and implicit measures tapping into the association between the concepts "self" and "depressed".
Indian realism from contemporary perspective Ghent University
The research will focus on comparative philosophy, it will combine contemporary western metaphysics with the Indian metaphysics of the Nyaya-Vaisesika school. The four main points of interest are: 1. categories of being, 2. space and time and 3. the mind-body connection and personal identity.
A rhetorical-narratological approach to figurativeness in narrative settings, applied to eventful German prose literature between early modernity and poetic realism (1660-1880) Ghent University
The research project undertakes a systematic analysis of the interference between complex figurative and stylistic processes, on the one hand, and layered narrative settings, on the other, in a historically differentiated corpus of eventful narrative texts (Grimmelshausen, Forster, Kleist, Meyer, Keller, Raabe). Special attention is being paid to the cotextual embeddedness of the figurative processes and to the ways in which they elicit the ...