After having graduated at the UA with a thesis on the Brecht reception in Flanders, Guy Cools became involved with the new developments in dance in Flanders from the 1980s, ...read more
The overarching conclusion of this study is that Lutheran astronomers of the Renaissance—represented here by Erasmus Reinhold, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Caspar Peucer, and Tycho Brahe—saw their work as taking place ...read more
In 2012 Frederik Le Roy obtained his doctoral degree at Ghent University with a dissertation entitled Verknoopte tijd, verfrommelde geschiedenis (Entangled Time, Crumpled History). Inspired by the philosophy of history of Walter ...read more
The project aims at developing a methodology for scientific problem solving which is exact (from a logical point of view) but also takes into account the context-dependence of problem solving. ...read more
Explanations of diseases can result from a biological, psychological or social science approach. This project examines how these approaches relate to one another within the biomedical sciences. Should they be ...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
Although it is generally acknowledged that the two most influential research traditions of the twentieth century philosophy of science,---namely the 'logistic' program of the logical positivists (Carnap, Neurath, Schlick, Hempel, ...read more