Projects
Virtue based ethics and Integrity of Research: Train-the-Trainer program for Upholding the principles and practices of the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity KU Leuven
Consistent application and internalization of the principles listed in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (ECoC) requires wide spread dissemination, innovative training program and novel tools. VIRT2UE aims to develop a sustainable train-the-trainer blended learning programme enabling tailored ERI teaching across Europe, focusing on understanding and upholding the principles of the ECoC. The learning programme will provide a ...
Goods, Virtue and Happiness in the Early Academy KU Leuven
This project investigates the ethical theories developed in the Early Academy, the phase of the Academy immediately following the death of Plato. The aim is to show that these theories contributed significantly to the dynamics of the debate on goods, virtue and happiness in the 4th century BCE.
In antiquity, there were two major, competing answers to the question of how happiness, goods and virtue are related. The first model, advanced ...
Justified Belief. A Knowledge First Virtue Epistemological. KU Leuven
Knowledge and justified belief are among the most central notions in epistemology. While it is nearly universally agreed that knowledge entails justified belief, there is an ongoing debate over how, if at all, the two notions can be defined. Traditional epistemology takes justified belief to be more fundamental and ventures to define knowledge in terms of justified belief. A leading approach within the traditional framework is virtue ...
Courage as a moral virtue from a feminist perspective. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Promotor: Gily Coene
Virtue and Happiness: Moral Philosophy in Late Antique Christian Thought KU Leuven
The Transvaluation of Virtue: Plotinus and the Foundation of Ethics KU Leuven
The project will explore the ethics of Plotinus and its relevance to contemporary debates concerning eudaimonist ethics and egoism. Eudaimonist virtue ethics considers eudaimonia (well-being/ happiness) as the goal that determines the ethical life. It will be argued that Plotinus proposes a form of ethical naturalism that can rescue eudaimonist ethics from the charge of egoism.
The project is the result of advances in two scholarly ...
Spiritual Morality. The Religious Orders and the Virtues, 1050-1300 KU Leuven
Spiritual Morality aims to contribute to modern-day virtue ethics from a medieval perspective; to the reflection on method and form in the study of medieval theology; and to the history of the birth of the religious orders of the “long twelfth century.” It discusses basic religious ideas that gave powerful impulses to incipient institutions. By analyzing a selection of foundational (Benedictine, Carthusian, Cistercian, Augustinian, ...