The aim of this project is to study the ethical and political presuppositions of public forms of historical representation. I will do this by focusing on three important ways in ...read more
More research in palliative care is urgently needed, but research in this field remains highly sensitive as it often involves doing research on palliative and/or dying patients or their relatives. ...read more
This dissertation evaluates some noteworthy current developments in the use of international legal instruments to protect intellectual property rights, with special attention for patents and data exclusivity. In the first ...read more
20th century neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, i.e. the ‘Modern Synthesis’ between Darwinian selectionism and Mendelian genetics, studied the evolution of organismal phenotypes, genetically represented as genotypes. It black-boxed the complex developmental ...read more
The project is situated within the field of philosophy of biology or bio-philosophy, and more specifically the bio- philosophy of evolutionary theory and Darwinism. We will investigate the theoretical and ...read more
Reasoning with priorities is the kind of reasoning in which we rely on degrees of importance, urgency, plausibility, specificity, recency, etc. to solve certain problems with our obligations, beliefs, etc. ...read more
In classical India, philosophers from the different schools built a common area of discussions within which an agreement on philosophical issues could be achieved. Focusing on the 11th century CE ...read more
The PhD studies the idea of 'good' rulership as discussed in one of the earliest treatises in Chinese history, the Chunqiu Fanlu, compiled in the Early Han period (221-9 BC). ...read more
This doctoral project puts into focus the changing nature, dramatic actuality and expanded, bio-ethical and visual meaning of suicidal phenomena as symptoms of global media culture in the first decade ...read more