Projects
Speculative and Creative Methodologies for Historical Counter-Narratives: Spatial Archive, Scenographic Practice and Fictioning Hasselt University
Immanuel Kant’s Deduction of the Categories of Quantity as a Stepping Stone to Exploring the Relation between Transcendental and Formal Logic and their respective Metaphysical Implications Ghent University
For many years there have been discussions about how exactly Immanuel Kant’s categories of quantity should be derived from the quantitative forms of judgment. This research proposal aims to connect this debate, which we call the "Derivation Controversy," to an analysis of the distinction between formal and transcendental logic, as well as to an analysis of the relation between logic and metaphysics in Kant's philosophy. The debate is ...
Fury: A Philosophical Analysis of the Productive Value of Women’s Anger Ghent University
Following the peak of the #MeToo movement, 2018 saw a remarkable surge in popular publications on the topic of women’s anger. These publications might reflect a shift in the popular attitude concerning women’s anger, which historically has been valued very negatively but is gaining in appreciation. While these books and articles re-examine the phenomenon of women’s anger for a broad audience, an academic counterpart is largely missing. In ...
My Past was Dark, is my Future Darker?: An art-based inquiry to the experiences of female Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URMs) with Asylum Practices in United Kingdom and Belgium KU Leuven
Performance management, big data and aggregation has moved public health further away from what makes us human. While some governments have recognised the need to enable a whole systems approach to tackle complex and pervasive health challenges such as inequalities, there is still much confusion over how local, national and international bodies work together to connect individuals and communities to the system. Key questions are how to shift ...
The Deconstruction of the Notion of Simplicity in Contemporary French Philosophy KU Leuven
The purpose of the research is to show the centrality of the notion of simplicity for the establishment of classical ontology, and how this notion has consequently been deconstructed in the post-war French Philosophy in an attempt to radically criticize the essential epistemic assumptions of inherited philosophy. This will be done emblematically with reference to the writings of Aristotle and Derrida, and the thesis will be therefore divided ...
Three contributions to an evolving urban studies research agenda: world city networks, polycentric urban regions, and collaborations at the intersection of data and social sciences KU Leuven
In the context of ongoing ontological/epistemological/methodological debates on the nature of urban studies, this research program submitted as an integral part of the BOFZAP position in 'city science' consists of three main pillars: extensions to world city network research; research into polycentric urban regions; and research collaborations at the intersection of social science and data sciences.
Toward a Unified Account of Aristotelian Diagrams in Logical Geometry. KU Leuven
Aristotelian diagrams have been widely used throughout the history of philosophy and logic, and nowadays they also have many applications in other disciplines. The framework of logical geometry studies these diagrams as objects of independent interest, which allows us to address many of the issues that surround the existing applications of these diagrams, and even to develop completely new applications. The main goal of my research program is ...
Modal Normativism: Reviving an Old Tradition KU Leuven
Modal normativism is the view that the function of modal claims is to convey normative rules. According to the modal normativist, the claim made by uttering the sentence ‘Necessarily, (Michelangelo's) David does not survive a drastic change in shape’ conveys the semantic rule ‘One ought not re-apply 'David' after a drastic change in shape' (the semantic rule specifies a condition under which it is not permitted to re-apply the term). The ...