This research project investigates the way in which Leonhard Euler's optics, mechanics and acoustics, influenced the eighteenth century transition from early modern natural philosophy to modern science. The main question ...read more
This project comprises research into the discursive voice of the translator in conveying philosophical discourse between France and Britain in the eighteenth century. The aim of the project is to develop a ...read more
This project was an investigation into the philosophical work of Tang Junyi, one of the major philosophers of so-called New Confucianism in the People's Republic of China. The work shows ...read more
This project focuses on the role of the novice, the expert(s) and society in dealing with scientific expertise. The relation between experts and stakeholders will be studied from three viewpoints: ...read more
The project was devoted to a comparative study of Fromondus’ and Descartes’ work on meteorology. It undertook a broad historiographical study of the status of meteorology in the early modern ...read more
My dissertation consists of a metaphilosophical investigation into the project of defining art. Many deem this project to be both impossible and futile. My two main objectives were: (1) to ...read more
The central questions of this research project are: i) What is the correlation between the adoption of Newtonian physics and the acceptance of determinism? ii) Should the question whether nature ...read more
A pragmatic theory of scientific explanation can be characterized as follows: (1) it starts from the idea that why-questions originate in different epistemic interests, (2) it answers questions about the ...read more
The general aim of this project is to study the structure and dynamics of values and norms from a formal logical point of view. Conflicts between values and/or norms will ...read more
For the last decennia memory has become, more than ever, an important subject for academic research. From a historical, but also from a more general humane scientific viewpoint, we could ...read more