Projects
Ethics and value-reality. Aurel Kolnai's legacy: an analytic ethic based on the phenomenology of value-consciousness and moral awareness. KU Leuven
Aurel Kolnais legacy: an analytic ethic based on the phenomenology of value-consciousness and moral awareness.
In 1900, Aurel Kolnai was born in a liberal Jewish family living at the centre of Budapest. He studied and wrote his dissertation in Vienna, converted to Catholicism and was mainly interested in and influenced by realist phenomenology authors such as Brentano, Husserl, Scheler and Hartmann ...
Towards Renewed Ethical Leadership Behaviors: Combining Ethics with Social Justice Frameworks KU Leuven
Ethical leadership has become a thriving research field. However, there is ongoing debate concerning the conceptualization and measurement of ethical leadership behavior. This dissertation will focus on several research questions: (1) What specific behaviors does an ethical leader show? (2) Do employees perceive these leader behaviors as ethical? (3) How can leaders effectively acquire particular ethical leadership behavior? Drawing from an ...
Towards a more integrated formal account of actual ethical reasoning, with applications in medical ethics. Ghent University
The project has two main aims. The first is to lay the conceptual framework for a formal account that allows for the explication and evaluation of actual reasoning processes involving ethical dilemma’s. The second aim is to design non-classical modal logics within this framework and to apply them to some well-chosen cases from the domain of medical ethics.
Creating the Ethical Body: Neo-Confucian Ethics in Early Modern Japanese Health Cultivation Literature (1600-1868) Ghent University
The proposed project aims to better understand the influence of Neo-Confucian ethics on the
perception of the human body, particularly as seen in early modern Japanese popular vernacular
literature on health cultivation. The research will mainly
capture the crucial period from the 18th- into the early 19th century when the popularization of
‘Nurturing Life’ literature widely disseminated ideas of healthy living to a ...
Psychologization and 'global ethics'. A critical analysis of the historic, ethical and political aspects of the phenomenom of psychologization Ghent University
This PhD-research envisions an empirical-based (media-research) answer to the question if the position of psychology as a discourse in both self-experience and in the public domain has changed (in a qualitative way) in the last decades - if this is linked to changing socio-economic and cultural circumstances (globalisation) and what the moral and ethic consequences this brings for the involved parties.
Ethics of the new biosciences / critical analysis of scientific evidence and technical solutions as the answer to ethical dilemmas in the stem cell and kloneerdebat. Ghent University
Non-profit organizations and face-to-face fundraising: Research on the ethical judgment of donors and recruiters, and the influence of this ethical judgment on donor acquisition and retention. KU Leuven
The growing non-profit sector has an increasing degree of competition and financial viability as one of the biggest challenges. It is therefore crucial for non-profit organizations to approach fundraising in a more strategic and professional way, with increased attention to cost-effectiveness and building long-term relationships with donors. Face-to-face fundraising (e.g. street recruitment, door-to-door recruitment) is often mentioned as a ...
Sabbatical Kris Dierickx: Ethics of research and research ethics KU Leuven
Thematically, I would first like to focus on an imminent paradigm shift in medical ethics and research practice, namely a growing tendency to share clinical data (e.g. via platforms such as matchmaker) and samples and use them for research without the explicit consent of the patient. An in-depth ethical exploration is necessary, especially into the implications for patient autonomy. In addition, it is the intention within the current line of ...