Projects
The Juridical Sufism of Aḥmad Zarrūq (d. 1493): Towards a Theory of Applied Legal Epistemology KU Leuven
The Juridical Sufism of Aḥmad Zarrūq (D. 1493): Towards A Theory Of Applied Legal Epistemology KU Leuven
This research focuses on the pre-modern relationship between the disciplines of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) and Sufism (taṣawwuf), Islamic mysticism. Essential to this relationship is the perceived tension between the different interpretations regarding the spirit and the letter of the Revealed Law (al-sharīʿa). Is the literal interpretation all we can understand from the divine law or is there another layer, a ...
The Shadow Within Nature: Epistemology and Ontology of Prime Matter in the Late Middle Ages (1250-1430) KU Leuven
The proposed research is centred on an ontological and epistemological shadow posited within nature by medieval philosophers: the shadow cast by prime matter. The project will investigate a later medieval (ca. 1250-1430) debate that lies at the heart of hylomorphism, the theory that every bodily thing is made of matter and form. Medieval thinkers postulated the existence of a basic and primordial matter of which the corporeal universe is ...
The Affective Epistemology of Dislocated Journalists: Emotions as knowledge among journalists exiled, displaced, and repatriated in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian War Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Shadow Within Nature: Epistemology and Ontology of Prime Matter in the Late Middle Ages (1250-1430) KU Leuven
The research is centred on an ontological and epistemological shadow posited within nature by medieval philosophers: the shadow cast by prime matter. The project investigates a later medieval (ca. 1250-1430) debate that lies at the heart of hylomorphism, the theory that every bodily thing is made of matter and form. Medieval thinkers postulated the existence of a basic and primordial matter of which the corporeal universe is made. While a ...
The Epistemology of Data Science: Mathematics and the Critical Research Agenda on Data Practices Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Responses to Newton: The impact of the mathematical-experimental program on the (natural) philosophy, epistemology and metaphysics (1687-1800), Leuven- 5 June 2019 - 7 June 2019 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Epistemology of Thought Experiments KU Leuven
Thought experiments are widely used and accepted as a standard method of gaining new knowledge about things or raising doubts about them in philosophy, in science and in everyday life. However, even though the phenomenon is commonplace, accounting for their nature and their epistemic properties have been far from simple. The aim of this research is to defend an account of the nature of thought experiments and their evidential significance ...