The colonial representation of the Hindu traditions has attracted considerable scholarly attention in recent years. Many have forcefully argued that the colonial state employed Orientalist scholars and native informants to ...read more
In my dissertation, I have used a work-oriented approach in order to identify the meaning of mythical and biblical discourses for the enactment of time-spatial initiations and transgressions in Schwarzenbach’s ...read more
This PhD project studies the political and economical history of Chinese Buddhism during the Northern and Southern Dynasties (mainly 5th century).read more
The goal of this research project is to develop formal insight in the following pair of questions: (1) what is the relation between standard Boolean-valued logics and the contemporary non-standard ...read more
The traditional criteria for lawlikeness are rarely met in the special sciences (biology, economy, social sciences, etc.). These sciences seem almost never to discover universal, exceptionless regularities. Nevertheless, they are ...read more
In this study we will expand upon the hypothesis that the 16th-century tradition of master arithmeticians did influence the conceptual shift that has lead to a symbolic algebra. The origin ...read more