Projects
Community, Initiation and Autonomy. A Philosophical Investigation from the Perspective of Wittgenstein and Heidegger KU Leuven
This dissertation aims at gaining insight in our late modern moral backgrounds by considering the case of ‘parenting support’. The method it uses is a hermeneutical one, drawing on Polts idea that interpretation is continuously attempting to gain a deeper insight in something, by revising and elaborating existing interpretations. Starting from our everyday lived experiences we try to make the hermeneutical circle narrower by going ...
Wittgenstein as a philosopher of mathematical practice Ghent University
This project investigates how Wittgenstein’s concern with social practices can be tied to his philosophy of mathematics, by connecting his notions of calculus and language game. A reading of Wittgenstein as an early philosopher of mathematical practice is developed and subsequently applied to four specific issues: rule-following, the nature of mathematical proof, Gödel’s incompleteness theorems and computer-assisted proofs.
Ethics and aesthetics are one. Development of a contemporay transcendental approach starting from Kant and Wittgenstein Ghent University
The aim of this project is to develop an alternative approach to the analytical interpretation of the relationship between ethics and aesthetics. It does so by articulating the significant function of the experiencing subject for the dynamical conjunction of ethics and aesthetics as one. It investigates how the combination of Immanuel Kant's and Ludwig Wittgenstein's perspectives can be made philosophically relevant on this matter.
Turing and Wittgenstein: Opponent or Ally? A New Interpretation of Wittgenstein’s 1939 Cambridge Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
and of AI. Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally recognized as one of the
most influential philosophers of the 20th Century. The most intriguing
interaction between Turing and Wittgenstein was Turing’s attendance
at Wittgenstein’s lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics in
1939. Detailed notes of Wittgenstein’s 1939 lectures survive, and
...
Removing the mind from the head. A Wittgensteinian perspective. University of Antwerp
Removing the Mind from the Head: A Wittgensteinian perspective. University of Antwerp
Transforming Responsibility Theory KU Leuven
My aim is to effect a paradigm shift in moral responsibility theory, a field associated with moral philosophy. I will do so by offering new and interrelated, practice-based answers to three questions generally recognized as key in this field. (1) The first concerns the relation between being responsible and our practices of holding responsible. Is one morally responsible for something because it is appropriate to hold one responsible, or is ...
A Wittgensteinian account of free will. KU Leuven
In his later works, Ludwig Wittgenstein characterizes his own philosophy as a form of philosophical therapy. This means that philosophical problems are ‘solved’ not so much by providing a solution to the problem at hand but rather by showing that there is something wrong with the problem itself. A ‘grammatical’ analysis of how language actually works and how meaningful questions can be raised reveals that what we believe to be genuine ...