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Nourishing the restorative imagination KU Leuven
What’s wrong with an epistocratic council? KU Leuven
© The Author(s) 2019. Epistemic justifications of democracy affirm the comparative quality of democracies’ decisions. The challenge faced by those who endorse such views is to explain why we should prefer standard democratic institutions to some sort of epistocracy or rule of the wisest. This article takes up this challenge by assessing the epistemic potential of an epistocratic council, as imagined by Jason Brennan. Members of such council ...
Ensor in the popular imagination: Paul HaesaertsU+2019s film Masques et visages de James Ensor (1952) Ghent University
The paleotechnology of telephones and screens. On the ecstatic permeability of the interior Hasselt University
This article argues that the essentials of the complex relationship between interiority and exteriority, and the mediating role of teletechnology, are already present in the interiors of Paleolithic caves. As philosopher Maxine Sheets-Johnstone argues in The Roots of Thinking (1990), cave art emerged from the primal fascination with ‘being inside.’ Yet at the same time, these first interiors were most likely created to establish a form of ...