Projects
A philosophy of mind perspective on mindreading and morality Ghent University
I investigate the specific role that mindreading plays in our moral cognition. To what extent do individual differences in mindreading influence our moral cognition (first objective)? To what extent do mindreading deficits contribute to moral deficits (second objective)? I will address potential shortcomings in the current philosophy of mind debate on mindreading and morality (third objective).
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.
From Theory of Mind to Vicarious Perception University of Antwerp
Faculties of the Mind. The Rise of Facultative Logic at the University of Louvain KU Leuven
This project, which will take the form of a PhD thesis submitted by Steven Coesemans, will use the student notebooks from a historical point of view.
The seventeenth and eighteenth century in the Low Countries have been an especially turbulent period, especially from the viewpoint of intellectual history. Institutions with a largely medieval structure, such as the University of Leuven, provide education in the form of a scholastic ...
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 ...
Kant’s Approaches to the Human Mind in the Critique of Pure Reason KU Leuven
My research aims to investigate the various approaches to the human mind in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (CPR) and determine how they are related to one another. I will focus on 1) Kant’s analysis of the faculties of the human mind in the Transcendental Analytic, 2) Kant’s criticism of rational psychology in the Paralogisms chapter, and 3) the rational psychology that is considered to be one of the areas of Kant’s system of metaphysics in ...
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 ...