Projects
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".
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 ...
The development of a structuralist and process ontology based on the structural scientific realism and the philosophy of symbolic forms. Ghent University
The Critical Realist Cinema of Wang Bing: A Comparison with the Films of Chantal Akerman and Jia Zhangke University of Antwerp
The Critical Realist Cinema of Wang Bing: A Comparison with the Films of Chantal Akerman and Jia Zhangke University of Antwerp
To the ResQ: combining realist synthesis and qualitative comparative analysis Developing a theory of performance-based financing. University of Antwerp
Exploring the limits of the eidetic method: three female pioneers in early realist phenomenology KU Leuven
Largely framed by Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology and Heidegger’s existential ontology, contemporary accounts of the history of phenomenology tend to ignore the great variety of directions that evolved from Husserl’s work. This project seeks to redress this lack by retrieving the work of three outstanding female phenomenologists who each in their own way explored the possibilities and limits of phenomenology: Hedwig Conrad-Martius ...