Projects
The Epistemic Puzzle of Perception. Conscious Experience, Higher-Order Beliefs, and Reliable Processes KU Leuven
An empirical study of civic epistemologies: How policy-makers use uncertainty information KU Leuven
Crisis Epistemologies KU Leuven
Hearing, Assenting, and Acting: Later Medieval Accounts of Testimonial Belief and Knowledge, 1300-1550 KU Leuven
This project is a comprehensive study of epistemological discussions on testimonial belief and knowledge in the Later Middle Ages (13001550), a period that has gone unnoticed in the history of epistemology. The project will proceed in three stages. The first stage will be devoted to identifying predecessors whose views had great influence on later medieval epistemology of testimony. Special attention will be paid to Augustine (354-430), ...
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 ...
Epistemological aspects of the interaction between cognitive and social levels in polymorphic populations of scientists: An agent-based modeling approach Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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
Fideism in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy of Religion KU Leuven
Fueled by an “externalist turn” in general epistemology, the later twentieth century saw a surge of interest among analytic philosophers of religion in a new version of fideism known as “moderate fideism”. It claims that religious beliefs might be warranted and thus rational even in the absence of supporting arguments or evidence. With its commitment to epistemic externalism, moderate fideism claims that insofar as it can successfully show ...