Projects
Empirical Foundations for Logical Geometry: A Database of Aristotelian Diagrams KU Leuven
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 ...
Empirical Foundations for Logical Geometry: A Database of Aristotelian Diagrams KU Leuven
In light of recent research around logical geometry – a unified theoretical account of Aristotelian diagrams – my main goal is to develop a digital database of Aristotelian diagrams and their relevant metadata. This database will provide an empirical basis for logical geometry, placed firmly within a practice-based philosophy of logic, which will lead to the fine-tuning of existing theories, the discovery of new properties of Aristotelian ...
Ethical aspects of doping and anti-doping: in search of an alternative policy KU Leuven
The use of certain technologies, especially of specific pharmacological means, with the aim of improving performance, is forbidden in competitive sport. This practice, called doping, is repressed by increasingly strong anti-doping measures, which are overseen by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Even if these anti-doping developments essentially concern elite competitive sport, they influence society in general. Some agents present doping ...
Towards empowering support of parents of young children on the autism spectrum KU Leuven
Raising autistic children is not self-evident. Parents of young children
with autism are often confronted with daily challenges, resulting in
uncertainties regarding their roles and responsibilities in parenthood.
By a timely diagnosis and intervention, clinicians may provide some
initial guidance: sharing knowledge on autism and adapted parenting
practices is key to early intervention. However, lived experience of ...
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., ...
A Formal Approach to The Structure of Reasons Ghent University
A practical reason is a consideration in favor of why something is obligatory. Since reasons are central both in everyday normative reasoning and in normative theorizing, having precise models of how reasons are structured and how to reason with them is crucial to advance our understanding of substantive normative questions. The general aim of this project is to investigate the structure of practical reasons, which has so far been missing. ...
Justification and Knowledge: A Defense of the Identity View KU Leuven
My doctoral research aims to defend the Identity View; that is, the view that one can justifiably believe a proposition if and only if one knows it. The proposed defense of the Identity View consists of three core stages.
Stage 1 argues for the view that knowledge is the epistemic goal of cognition; that is, of cognitive acts managing beliefs. As such, it has two aims. First, it aims to argue that the received ...
Overlooked Aspects of Cultural Evolution: Information, Maladaptation, and Evolutionary Trends KU Leuven
In the last decades, there has been an important theoretical shift towards a biology-based approach to the study of cultural evolution. This field came to be known as cultural evolutionary theory (CET), and although it consists of multiple approaches including dual-inheritance theory, epidemiology of representations, niche construction, and memetics, which differ from each other in some important respects, it is based on the view that culture ...