Projects
Religious and citizenship education in a liberal, postsecular framework - with a special focus on the subject ECR in Québec. University of Antwerp
Cross pressures. Charles Taylor on strong evaluation, morality, and Nietzsche. University of Antwerp
Social Justice in the European Union: Principles for Just Distribution KU Leuven
The objective of the PhD project that I propose to pursue consists in developing a conception of social justice for the European Union (EU). In particular, I aim to define principles for distributing socio-economic goods at the EU level and to look at the implications these principles have for institutional design and policy reform. The PhD project is situated in the context of the nascent debate on EU social justice and more broadly in the ...
Cross pressures. Charles Taylor on strong evaluation, morality, and Nietzsche. University of Antwerp
Conscience and its objections: a comprehensive investigation. University of Antwerp
Philosophy as therapy? An inquiry into the application of a Wittgensteinian idea in the moral realm. KU Leuven
My research is, firstly, aimed at giving a detailed account of ...
Building Supranational Democracy: A Post-Westphalian Approach to Power, Trust, & Institutional Design. KU Leuven
This project continues recent successful graduate work on democracy and the institutionalisation of just relations between dominant and non-dominant political communities in multinational states. The core question is: what role might cross-national trust and solidarity play in overcoming the power constraint plaguing minority-majority relations in multinational democracies? The power constraint is the restricted ability of national ...
Global Justice and Global Democracy. KU Leuven
What is globalization? And how should our political institutions respond to it? This dissertation formulates and answer to both these questions by relating the ideas of three Enlightenment thinkers to three elements of globalization: globalizing democracy to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, international law to Immanuel Kant and international trade to David Hume. Through a close reading of these authors, the dissertation asks whether globalization is ...