The project investigates the fundamental philosophical and ethical concepts that influenced Kauṭilya and their impact on the social and political realm as reflected in the treatise “Arthaśāstra” (1- 2nd cent. ...read more
My role as co-investigator in the project “Cross-Cultural Conceptions of the Self: South Asia, Africa and East Asia” at Ghent University as part of the small project grants awarded by ...read more
This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium. It aims to reveal the modalities in which ...read more
This research aims to comprehensively study the iconography of Bhaiṣajyaguru, as a medium to underscore the cross-pollination of religions and beliefs shaping an iconographic paradigm across Central Asia, India, and ...read more
This project is intended to examine why people believe in a bullshit assumption or theory at the expense of reason and evidence focusing on Ethiopian experiences. Due to lack of ...read more
This project aims to provide an epistemological analysis of the practice of chemistry in different contexts in the second half of the 18th century and of the interaction between actors ...read more
This project aims to get a better understanding of the social history of Indian philosophy. For this purpose, this project will investigate the history of philosophy at Nalanda, the most ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
Recent scholarship in the history of analytical philosophy has revealed that the conceptions of logic held by Frege, (early) Russell, and (early) Wittgenstein differ in crucial aspects from those that ...read more