Projects
Transcending the horizon of public science dissemination. A foundational philosophical reflection on the science communication paradigm. KU Leuven
This manuscript investigates and aims to transcend inherent paradigmatic challenges in public science dissemination by reflecting upon the science communication paradigm in which both science dissemination research and practice are embedded. Public science dissemination is within this work defined as the translating, curating, and transferring of scientific knowledge via science intermediaries, encompassing a broad and diverse spectrum of ...
A Future for Philosophical Anthropology? Historical Ontology as a Critical Project Ghent University
More than 200 years after the establishment of philosophical anthropology as a discipline of knowledge, its epistemological status is still vague and ambiguous. This project aspires a methodology and conceptual apparatus for a critical project of philosophical anthropology in terms of a ‘historical ontology’, underlying man’s historical coming into being.
This project investigates the epistemological status of philosophical anthropology ...
The Rhetoricity of Philosophical Practice: On the Rhetorical Audience in Perelman and Ricœur after the Badiou-Cassin Debate KU Leuven
Despite fundamentally disagreeing over the nature of philosophy and sophistry in their ongoing debate, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin both agree that rhetoric is a dead end for contemporary thought. For Badiou, the proud Platonist, rhetoric’s concern with audiences and their opinions leaves it entirely divorced from truths. For Cassin, the avowed sophist, rhetoric was never anything more than a philosophical ruse designed to contain the ...
Schelling's Philosophical Theology. Tracing the Idea of the Absolute KU Leuven
Schelling’s philosophy has attracted an increasing scholarly interest recently. What previous genera-tions of philosophers found irritating, i.e., that this philosophy cannot easily be categorized as a vari-ety of German Idealism, is precisely what many contemporary scholars find attractive. For them, Schelling is important not only as a sharp critic of German Idealism but also a precursor of much later philosophical paradigms such as ...
How to amalgamate scientific evidence for causal claims? A comparison of different approaches to evidence amalgamation and a philosophical analysis of their epistemic status. University of Antwerp
A Portrait of Philosophical Psychology in the 15th Century: Dominic of Flanders on Particular and Universal Knowledge (With an Edition of Book III of his Expositio super libros de anima) KU Leuven
This dissertation focuses on the philosophical psychology of a little-studied author, Dominic of Flanders (†1479), as elaborated upon in a work that has received no attention in the scholarly literature thus far—viz., his Expositio super libros de anima (composed ante 1470). No modern editions of Dominic’s works exist. Born in the County of Flanders during the first half of the fifteenth century, Dominic was first educated at the University ...
Why Kafka? On the concepts 'singularity' and 'universality' in the philosophical reception of his work. University of Antwerp
A Philosophical Investigation of Political Anxiety KU Leuven
Narratives of truth in Cassirer and Heidegger: A philosophical analysis of the 'post-truth era' KU Leuven
While many agree that the Western world has recently entered a 'post-truth era', the causes and implications of this phenomenon are still subject of a fierce debate. Over the last year, commentators from various fields have aptly described the politics of developing and disseminating post-truth claims, the journalistic deontology for covering post-truth claims, and the human psychology of the public processing post-truth claims. Yet, such ...