Projects
Imagination and Moral Reasoning. Creative Imagination in Moral Option Generation. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Jan Heylen: Knowledge and reasoning KU Leuven
Firstly, during my sabbatical leave, I would like to devote myself to (i) the research and doctoral projects of which I am (co-)promoter and (ii) that will still be active in the second semester of 2020–2021. It concerns the following research projects:
(1) The limits of factual knowability (3H180682); (2) BITSHARE: Bitstring Semantics for Human and Artificial Reasoning (3H190254). It concerns the following doctoral projects: (1) The ...
Teaching scientific reasoning and argumentation in secondary psychology education: The role of epistemological beliefs KU Leuven
Scientific reasoning and argumentation (SRA) are complex thinking skills and can be defined as the ability to understand and appropriately use scientific concepts, methods, and findings when solving or explaining problems in a specific discipline (Fischer et al., 2014). SRA are highly domain-specific skills, referring to the epistemological nature of the discipline in which SRA are implemented and the (meta)concepts of the discipline (Chinn ...
H2020: TAILOR : Foundations of Trustworthy AI - Integrating Reasoning, Learning and Optimization Vrije Universiteit Brussel
On the malleability of fairness norms: the role of social values, wise reasoning, power asymmetry, and inter-group conflict. University of Antwerp
Toward a general theory of intuitive and deliberative thinking – testing the corrective assumption of dual process theory in moral and cooperative reasoning KU Leuven
Cooperation is crucial to our own survival in evolutionary settings. Yet, some people are more likely to cooperate than others. Why is this the case? Similarly, why do some people decide to behave morally when others do not? Both of these questions have been puzzling scientists and philosophers for thousands of years, and the practical and theoretical implications of their answers are far-reaching. They are implicated in everything from ...
Logico-philosophical study of U+201CrelevanceU+201D in scientific and common sense reasoning. Ghent University
A general logical-philosophical framework will be developed that will enable us to explicate forms of relevance that occur in human reasoning processes. Both deductive and heuristic relevance and their interrelation will be taken into account. Moreover, the general framework will also be used to tackle problems in philosophy of science. More specifically, problems concerning DN-explanations and abduction-processes.
Symbolic reasoning with Short-term Cognitive Networks Hasselt University
Human environment interactions in the past Modeling ancient crop yields in a Mediterranean environment KU Leuven
Throughout history, there have been periods when humans and the environment had a strong interplay in which both greatly impacted the other. The onset of agriculture marked a drastic change in the way humans lived together which resulted in changes in the bio, geo, hydro - and atmosphere . For the Mediterranean region it was hypothesized that soil erosion following the cultivation of land degraded the landscape to such an extent that it ...