Projects
Why Kafka? On the concepts 'singularity' and 'universality' in the philosophical reception of his work. University of Antwerp
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 ...
Amalgamating scientific evidence for causal claims: a comparison of different approaches to evidence amalgamation and a philosophical analysis of their epistemic status. University of Antwerp
The Emotion of Pride and the Ethics of Recognition: A Philosophical Analysis University of Antwerp
Bildung revisited: the development of a new conceptual framework of Bildung starting from Charles Taylor's philosophical anthropology. University of Antwerp
Development of a philosophical theory for a historiography of the subject, the life-world en experience. Ghent University
The aim of this project is to develop a philosophical theory which allows the possibility of a cultural history of the subject, the life-world en experience. I will do this by starting from the philosophy of culture of Ernst Cassirer and by contrasting it with traditional hermeneutics and with the concrete historiographical practice.
Democratic respresentation and political participation. A philosophical inquiry into the meaning and scope of political agency with representative democracy. KU Leuven
How can the radical Enlightenment be actualized without losing its radical character? Fichte's "radical Enlightenment" and its significance for the contemporary philosophical debate about individual freedom, tolerance and pluralism. Ghent University
This project examines the historic conceptual conditions of possibility for a new concept of "radical Enlightenment" which, unlike the traditional view and the most recent researches on the Enlightenment, can a)also include enlightened philosophies with a religious dimension, and b) contribute to a critical view of the contemporary debate about the relations between individuals, society/ societies and State.