This project aims to investigate the moral rightness or wrongness of certain types of moral enhancement. Moral enhancement concerns a specific type of enhancement in which biomedical or other interventions ...read more
This research is part of the ERC-project 'Novel Saints: Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages'. This project aims to trace and interpret ancient novelistic material ...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 conceptual ...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
My doctoral research initially focused on the possibility of political emancipation in the work of Alain Badiou. Insofar as the question of the subject showed itself crucial to this matter, ...read more
The aim of this project is to study the ethical and political presuppositions of public forms of historical representation. I will do this by focusing on three important ways in ...read more
More research in palliative care is urgently needed, but research in this field remains highly sensitive as it often involves doing research on palliative and/or dying patients or their relatives. ...read more
In this project I study physical causation as opposed to causation in physics. Contrary tomost philosophers, I do not focus on the question whether the laws of physics can be ...read more
This dissertation evaluates some noteworthy current developments in the use of international legal instruments to protect intellectual property rights, with special attention for patents and data exclusivity. In the first ...read more