Despite all the interest for people like Dmitri Mirsky, Samuel Koteliansky and others who played a major role for the reception of Russian literature in Great-Britain, a remarkable figure of ...read more
In a majority of food studies, visual arts are used as documentary evidence for the analysis of culinary history. Although these valuable studies show a lot of scientific interest in the ...read more
Since 2012 the Vooruit Arts Center in Ghent specifically resides performers who engage with the public space of the city of Ghent. They are referred to as “de stadsresidenten” (the ...read more
PhD in Arts project, research is conducted within the research group S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) and within the University College Ghent - Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK). ...read more
In this project I investigate whether the human sciences can establish objectiveknowledge. Currently both within the disciplines of the human sciences and withinphilosophical debates the category of objectivity has been ...read more
What makes some explanations better than others? Although hugely important, detailed assessments of the strength of specific explanations or explanation types are scarce in the philosophy of explanation. In this project ...read more
Half of the papers ever published were written after the year 2000. To keep track of this explosive growth of science, policymakers are increasingly forced to rely on scientometric indicators. ...read more
Science is among the major accomplishments of the human race. It is our most reliable source of knowledge about the world. But what, if any, are the limits of science? ...read more
In the first half of the seventeenth century natural philosophers looking for alternatives to the then dominant Aristotelian physics often took simple material objects and contrivances to offer important lessons ...read more
This project will analyze the Ancient Greek discourse markers gar, oun and de in three fourth-century texts - two of them argumentative (Basil the Great's Hexaemeron and Gregory of Nazianzen's Invectives against ...read more