Projects
Causality in cognitive science and philosophy of mind. University of Antwerp
The horizons of the mind: Confucianistic neotraditionalism and Chinese identity in Tang Junyi's philosophy Ghent University
In this research project the work of philosopher Tang Junyi will be studied as a representative (traditionlist) orientation in contemporary Chinese thought. By investigating his "Exictence and the horizons of the mind" we will analyze how Tang attempts to reinterpret and reaffirm the value of Confucianism for China and the global community in the face of modernity.
Mind Your Words! The Role of Medieval Translations in the History of Concepts KU Leuven
The proposed project aims to use language studies to better understand medieval translations of philosophical treatises. It therefore wants to investigate whether the combination of a philological study (‘close reading’) and computational data (‘distant reading’) can succeed in objectively ascribing certain currently anonymous translations to known medieval translators, or at least in grouping them as the works of one unnamed scholar. If this ...
The Untold History of Early Modern Psychology: Soul, Mind, and Body, Between the Fifth Lateran Council and Cartesian Dualism (1513-1662) KU Leuven
What is the mind and how does it relate to our body? These are central questions in today’s philosophy of mind, and they have a long history. The very concept of “mind”, as the item responsible for cognition, and the so-called “mind-body problem” are normally traced back to the philosophy of René Descartes (1597-1650) and his mindbody dualism. But were Descartes’ views solely the result of his ingenuity, or were they rather a synthesis of ...
Towards a globally non-representational theory of the mind. University of Antwerp
Modern time-consciousness: philosophy and politics of history - Leo Strauss on history and truth in the relation of theory and praxis. KU Leuven
The first part of the project will clarify a set of problems centering on the ...
The Scientific Revolution in the Classroom. Late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy at the University of Louvain. KU Leuven
The aim of this project is to deepen our understanding of the changing climate in late 17th-century and 18th-century natural philosophy teaching at the University of Louvain. I intend to examine the rise of the mechanical worldview, the rejection of the mathematical Newtonian model of science, and the culmination of both traditions in experimental physics. Special focus will be laid on the challenging question of immediate intelligibility. ...