Pragmatist Compatibilism: A Semantic Critique of Free Will Incompatibilism KU Leuven
The PhD dissertation offers a systematic explication of P.F. Strawson's philosophical methodology.
The PhD dissertation offers a systematic explication of P.F. Strawson's philosophical methodology.
The project studies the address system in Chilean Spanish, characteristic of its threefoldness (tú, usted, vos + own verb conjugations), the increasing use of the hybrid 'tú + vos-verb conjugation' and the high frequency of strategic politeness alternations between the three forms. The investigation analyses social, geographical of strategic politeness alternations between the three forms. The investigation analyses social, geographical and ...
This project will investigate how and to what extent ‘pragmatic literacy’ — or the competences of reading and writing required to develop and run an administration based on written documents — gradually disseminated among secular governors and their collaborators during late 12th and 13th centuries, a period which is considered as the catalytic phase for the emergence and spread of this phenomenon.
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The SOCPREVbis study is a follow-up project of an earlier study into the social prevention of drug-related crime and/or nuisance (SOCPREV, 2015-2018). The SOCPREV study provided, among other things, several guidelines for monitoring and evaluating projects that focus on drug-related crime and/or nuisance. These guidelines were compiled in a registration manual. This registration manual should enable cities and ...
Address terms constitute a core resource for realizing social deixis. Because of address terms' prominent social function, changes in address systems are often attributed to cultural changes (e.g. recent changes in address between children and parents may reflect changing parent-child relationships). However, these explanations have rarely been tested on a systematic basis. Cultural explanations of changes in address usage are most convincing ...
In many Western societies, elders (>65 years) are gradually becoming a larger demographic (OECD Data, 2016), yet at the same time, a complaint frequently heard among the older generations is that people no longer respect their elders. This complaint is supported by a linguistic phenomenon studied in Sociolinguistics known as ‘elderspeak’ (Kemper, 1994). Elderspeak refers to a cluster of linguistic features utilized by younger adults to ...
‘Partnership’ is a buzzword in development cooperation, but it is unclear what a partnership should be and what it means in practice. My project will combine pragmatist political theory with empirical research to elaborate a normative framework for the assessment of partnerships, and I will conduct
a direct content analysis on a comprehensive dataset of EU development cooperation with OACPS.