Projects
Collective Knowledge in Mathematics: Proofs, Collective Justification, and Reliability Vrije Universiteit Brussel
is true, although we still do not know whether Goldbach’s conjecture
is. Obviously, such knowledge ascriptions are implicitly attributed to
the mathematical community or a subgroup thereof. But what is the
nature of such collective knowledge? Is it simply reducible to the sum
of the knowledge of individual mathematical agents, or shall 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 ...
How policy-makers use uncertainty information – an empirical study of civic epistemologies KU Leuven
This research project aims to draw attention to how the form of uncertainty presentation in pieces of evidence can impact policy-makers deliberations. We will approach this problem in three ways. Firstly, we aim to improve on the state of the art regarding formal social epistemology by developing new models for opinion dynamics that include agent- or community specific variables. By the use of numerical opinion dynamic simulations and ...
When To Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation And Transmission Of Knowledge In Saadya Gaon, Al-Ghazālī, And Thomas Aquinas KU Leuven
People have become suspicious of authority, including epistemic authorities, i.e., knowledge experts, even on matters individuals are unqualified to adjudicate (e.g., climate change, vaccines, or the shape and age of the earth). This is problematic since most of our knowledge comes from trusting a speaker—whether scholars reading experts, students listening to teachers, children obeying their parents, or pedestrians inquiring of ...
Multi-epistemic negotiation in the study of Islam: Overcoming incommensurability between Western and Islamic approaches in Islamic studies in- and outside university in the Low Lands. KU Leuven
The Right to Design KU Leuven
SRP (Zwaartepunt): Crossing borders: crime, culture and controle Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Andean transnational migration in Belgium: decolonial attitudes at the heart of Europe KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation analyses the knowledge generated by social actors of Peruvian origin in Belgium through their embodied practices, understood as performances which constitute both an act of transfer and a way of knowing. Against a Eurocentric narrative that has used the migration–development nexus paradigm to direct migration studies and has ignored subjectivities, I propose as part of a decolonial stance to analyse these practices ...
Family-life, difference and practices of citizenship. A longitudinal ethnography on families’ experiences in the Belgian and Dutch asylum regime KU Leuven
This research investigates how families are living with and navigating the asylum procedure in Belgium – within “camps” and beyond – in order to shine light on the affective, embodied process of seeking access to legal status. The monograph is based on a longitudinal, follow-along ethnography of families’ trajectories through the asylum regime in Belgium. It follows a number of families throughout the various phases of their asylum procedure: ...