The Late Roman ‘success story’ of urbanization in Africa Proconsularis, Byzacena, Numidia and Tripolitania has mostly been ascertained through generalizations from individual case studies. Broad studies of urban development that ...read more
Previous studies have indicated the social significance of linguistic variation in Postclassical Greek (III BC – VI AD). The general aim of this project is to gain insight into the nature of ...read more
This project aims to illustrate what happens to fashion communication in the digital era, investigating fashion magazines in five different countries (France, Italy, Portugal Netherlands, United Kingdom). It analyses the ...read more
The primary aim of this project is to develop a formal framework for the interaction between defeasible assumptions, norms, and the evaluation of actions. Its secondary aim is to ...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
Techniques to ‘read’ the human genome are becoming better and cheaper at a very rapid pace. As DNA of a foetus can be found in the mother’s bloodstream, it is ...read more
More than 200 years after the establishment of philosophical anthropology as a discipline of knowledge, its epistemological status is still vague and ambiguous. This project aspires a methodology and ...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
The Turkish Language Reform, following the Alphabet Reform, in the 1930s created a new - more purified - variant of Turkish. As a result, present-day readers of Turkish are confronted ...read more