Projects
MAGIS Brugge: Marcus Gheeraerts Information System, a dynamic digital interface for the history of Bruges. KU Leuven
Towards a Natural History of Formal Semantics. On the Development of Supposition Theory in Post-Medieval Logic (c. 1450- c. 1650). KU Leuven
Supposition theory (ST) is one of the most important non-symbolic forerunners to formal semantics, a branch of linguistics and logic that is characterized by a mathematical (model-theoretic) approach to meaning. ST first emerged after the reintegration of Aristotelian thought in the later 12th c., and it disappeared with the dawn of modern logic in the later 19th c. ST was the predominant current in semantics for a period of more than 500 ...
Strategic Research Programme: Cultures of Mathematics: Logic, Philosophy and History of Mathematical Practices. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Alliance Research Group: Logic, History & Philosophy of Science Ghent University
A first line of research for CLPS is investigating non-classical logics. This includes both logics that constitute a fragment of classical logic (like some paraconsistent logic's) as logic that are an alternative to classical logic (as some relevant logics). Important to us is to design and research on adaptive logic programs. Adaptive Logics (first developed by Diderik Batens, founder CLPS) provide a uniform framework for studying cognitive ...
Giordano Bruno's Imagination: Art of Memory between magic and Science Ghent University
By a study of Giordano Bruno's art of memory, influenced by his magic, the prominent position of Bruno's imagination is exposed. After the brunian imagination is discussed throughout his memotechnical, magical and philosophical work, it will be placed in a broader context of history of science, to enlarge our vision of the transition period between aristotelian physics and modern science.
The Curse of the Magic Mineral: the Impact of Asbestos in Mortality in Belgium. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Miracle or Magic? The Figure of the 'Magos' in Byzantine Hagiography Ghent University
What is the difference between magic and miracle? Scholars today believe that it is not possible to reach clear definitions of ‘magic’ and ‘miracle’ capable of answering that question: theoretically, one cannot meaningfully differentiate between the two. However, for Christians of the first centuries and later, the distinction between magic and miracle was crucial. This does not mean they were not sensitive to the fluidity of the spheres of ...
Understanding ideological bias through data-driven methods: testing cognitive social learning processes through intersectional analysis of past data (c.1800-c.1940) University of Antwerp
SCHENK HATTORI, A PRACTICE OF PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION KU Leuven
This is a design-based research (research in practice – Schenk Hattori) to reveal the anatomy of phenomena that are able to induce constant re-creation through some kind of newness suggesting the existence of real enchantment.
The activity of physical presence on our body, has been rendered as a subject rather absent for more than fifty years. (Jarzombek) Its intentionality, its presence and its meaning can differ from the spectacular ...