Projects
Antwerp Yiddish Noun Plurals (AYNP). University of Antwerp
Kant’s Pluralistic Account of the Principle of Sufficient Reason KU Leuven
The PSR is one of the few principles that runs through the whole history of philosophy. It expresses the most obvious presupposition of any investigation, namely, that all things must have a sufficient explanation. Questions concerning the scope, status, and implications of this ‘obvious’ principle have recently attracted the attention of contemporary philosophers, who discuss, among other issues, whether the PSR entails extreme monism, i.e., ...
The crucial role of lecturers in dealing with diversity in higher education. A study on lecturers’ diversity ideologies and practices, their impact on students and the development of an intervention trajectory. KU Leuven
Compared to other regions, the Flemish educational system scores highly on quality, yet poorly on equality: significant achievement gaps between youth with and without a migration background and those with low versus high socio-economic status (SES) persist in secondary and tertiary education (European Center for Statistics, 2014; PISA, 2015; 2018). These inequalities in turn reduce the future career opportunities and living standards of ...
Dialectical Reasoning and Topical Argument in the Middle Ages: an Inquiry into the Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics (1250-1500) KU Leuven
In my dissertation I have analysed 35 commentaries on the Topics from various epochs and places. I have focused my attention on the possible influences of the different views about logic and logical doctrines on the different approaches to the Topics that Medieval commentators employed. The main outcome of this scrutiny was the identification of two different and autonomous exegetical traditions, namely British, and continental or ...
Design and realisation of an automated and online system for the analysis, description and interpretation of research data on the identity of Catholic schools in a pluralising educational landscape. Integration of contentual, technical and ICT components. KU Leuven
Since 2007, a comprehensive research methodology is being developed at the Centre for Academic Teacher Training of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies to assess the philosophical and religious identity of Catholic educational institutes. This is done in collaboration with the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV) in Australia. Besides document analysis and interview research, a suite of surveys are being used which can be ...
Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis in young children: A clinical-ethical study on the experiences of parents and physicians. KU Leuven
After three quarters of a century of research and clinical experience, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) turns out to be surprisingly heterogeneous in its presentations, causes and cognitive mechanisms. In light of the miscellaneous nature of this diagnosis, it is unclear how the array of (predominantly “basic”) research findings on ASD is translated into information that is meaningful and valuable to parents and clinicians. Few studies are ...
History, Ethics and Politics in a Pluralistic Society Ghent University
In this project, I will research the ethical and political aspects of the way the public deals with the past. I will treat three case studies: Public historiographic discussions, moral anachronisms, and the ethics and politics of re-enactment
The German Federal Constitutional Court as guardian of normative sovereignty in a complex European legal order. KU Leuven
The EU-legal order is a complex Legal order. Interactions and possible conflicts between its different components (EU-law in the strict sense, national constitutional law and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms/ECHR) make up for the dynamic nature of the EU-legal order, characterized by the simultaneous validity of different, partly overlapping constitutions. Constitutional courtsare among the ...
Beyond Culture: Towards a Phenomenological Foundation of Anthropology KU Leuven
The universality of the divide between nature and culture has been recently challenged by anthropology as researchers argued that this divide is specific to modernity and should not be generalized to capture the plurality of ways of conceiving humanity’s relation to the world. To account for the diversity of collective experience, the humanities and social sciences should decenter supposedly universal categories of Western modernity and ...