Projects
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 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
Efficiency vs. Impact Awareness: A Batesonian Epistemology of Personal ICT use in a Networked World Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Reinhold’s Epistemology: The Pursuit of Certainty KU Leuven
Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823) was an influential thinker during the period of early post-Kantian philosophy. Yet his work remains overshadowed by giants such as Fichte, Schelling and Hegel, whose growth he contributed to. What little attention Reinhold has received focuses on his method, and almost exclusively on the first phase of his thought. The goal of my project, by contrast, is to shed light on Reinhold’s evolving conception of ...
ePEStemology: Towards a consolidation of social and ecological integrity for conservation and development in Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES). University of Antwerp
The value of knowledge. KU Leuven
Gassendi and the Science of Optics: the Genesis of a Continental Empiricism Ghent University
This project focuses on the French philosopher and physicist Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). It explores the articulation between his empiricism understood as a theory of knowledge based on the senses, and new optical theories and experimental practices.I concentrate on three main topics and show their connection to Gassendi’s epistemology: the physics of light, the physiology of vision, the psychology of vision.