Projects

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The cultivation of human organisms. The foundational importance of embodiment in Nietzsches genealogical writings

2016

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Philosophy
A historico-logical study of vitalism. Life and matter

2016

This project attempts to offer a philosophical critique of vitalism from the standpoints of both the history of science and the logic of science (the logic of science endorses logical ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Comparative
Contemporary
English
History
Language and text analysis
North America
Philosophy
Western Europe
Anti-mathematicism in philosophy

2015

Formal approaches are very influential in philosophy with many successes in logic, formalepistemology, semantics, and normative decision theory. Past philosophical formal developmentshave been influential outside of philosophy in areas as ...read more
History of science
Philosophy
The concept of art in art history

2015

Art historians continually use concepts of art, i.e., they continually distinguish between art and non-art. Before initiating their art historical inquiries, they have to decide which items are eligible for ...read more
20th Century
Art
Contemporary
History
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Quantitative
Supporting cross-disciplinary collaboration using insights from computational linguistics and philosophy of science

2015

The main aim of this project is to develop a new and original prototype tool that supports cross-disciplinary (CD) collaboration. The prototype focuses on problems related to language and methodology. ...read more
Contemporary
Language technology
Linguistics
Philosophy
Studies in the textual history and editorial practices of the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 and the Jǐngdé chuándēng lù 景德傳燈錄.

2015

This project examines aspects of the textual history and literary characteristics of the two earliest, fully extant multilineal lamp records of the Chán Buddhist tradition: (1) the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 (Collection of ...read more
Area studies
Asia
Buddhism
Chinese
Chinese Buddhism
Chán Buddhism
Far East
History
Japanese
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Oriental languages
Philosophy
Religion
Sanskrit
Zen Buddhism
Open ending. Interdisciplinary research into the development of physical and mental spaces for new rituals of parting in contemporary society

2015

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Art
Ethics and morality
Interculturalism
Philosophy
Religion
Theatre and performing arts
Maintaining the panslavic dream. The case of Janko Lavrin, a Slovenian Russianist in Great-Britain

2015

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
Cultural identity
East-West relations
History
Intellectual history
Interculturalism
Janko Lavrin
Liberal nationalism
Literary studies
Literature and identity
Minor figure
Neo-Slavism
Nottingham
Pan-Slavism
Philosophy
Saint Petersburg
Slavic identity
Slavism
Tribal identity
Universal nationalism
Food and the concept of truth. The rhetoric of food representations in the early modern Low Countries

2015

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
16th Century
17th Century
Art
Belgium
Comparative
Culinary history
Early modern art
English
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Literary studies
Low Countries
Philosophy
The artist as diplomat in public space. Towards an ethico-ecological aesthetic in the works of the city residents of Vooruit

2014

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
Art
Philosophy
Theatre and performing arts