Projects

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The notion of things and the transformation of seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy

2020

In the Anglophone world, the Chinese character wu 物 is most often straightforwardly translated as “thing”. However, in the everyday Chinese language, wu is a highly distinctive word and concept. In Chinese, people/persons/human beings are ...read more
Area studies
Philosophy
The psychology of the Buddha. Yogācāra and the science of mind in early republican China

2020

As part of the modernization project of Buddhism in the first half of twentieth-century, Chinese laypeople and monastics discussed Western psychology by framing their engagements with yogācāra teachings. Their activity ...read more
Area studies
History
Interculturalism
Philosophy
Religion
The ethical challenges of regulating algorithms

2019

Since Google decided in 2001 to start using data logs to generate predictions about users’ click-throughs and thus about the relevance of certain advertisements for a user, the collection and ...read more
Ethics and morality
Philosophy
The ambiguity of technoscience. From phenomenotechnique to design science

2019

The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to work on ‘directed evolution’. The latter is not a new theory or discovery, but a technique to let natural selection shape ...read more
20th Century
Contemporary
data science
English
Field research
French
History
History and philosophy of the life sciences
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Philosophy of technology
Synthetic biology
technoscience
Western Europe
Contemplating lists. List-making as spiritual exercise in Indian thought

2019

In "The Infinity of Lists", Umberto Eco contrasts two modes of artistic representation. One is bound to a definite aesthetic form. It conveys a comprehensive idea, closed on itself. The ...read more
Area studies
Literary studies
Philosophy
Religion
The life of a Buddhist manuscript. The Mūlasarvastivadin Dīrghāgama manuscript, its influence on Buddhist textual production, and the development of canonical Buddhist material in the first millennium of the common era

2019

The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the ...read more
Asia
Chinese
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Oriental languages
Philosophy
Religion
Sanskrit
Natural, social, and spiritual order in Enlightenment mesmerism: the Society of Universal Harmony (1783-1787)

2019

The Enlightenment stands as an age of scientific reason, where magic and religion were marginalized as alternative resources of public self-conduct. Among the many historical phenomena that problematize such an ...read more
History
Philosophy
Religion
The three religions during the late Ming. Research in the philosophical works by Fang Yizhi 方以智

2019

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16th Century
17th Century
Area studies
Asia
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Oriental languages
Philosophy
Religion
A study on the Thought of "Qing" (情) in the Zhuangzi

2019

TBAread more
Ethics and morality
Linguistics
Philosophy
Religion
The essay following the new documentary turn in performing arts. Tracing the essay in contemporary theatre and performance practices

2018

Within the current field of contemporary documentary theatre, the form of the essay is rising to prominence. The nature and the purpose of the essay inspires a number of contemporary artists with ...read more
Art
Philosophy
Theatre and performing arts

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