The research project is situated at the crossroads of moral philosophy (in particular globalethics) and political philosophy (in particular theories of global justice). It focuses both onindividual moral responsibility and ...read more
Fertility preservation is a recent branch of reproductive medicine that is increasingly gaining importance. In the most general terms it incorporates the removal, storage and/or transplantation of gametes, embryos and ...read more
This doctoral project puts into focus the changing nature, dramatic actuality and expanded, bio-ethical and visual meaning of suicidal phenomena as symptoms of global media culture in the first decade ...read more
Analysis of how medical science tries to achieve scientific understanding of health problems by investigating (1) the characteristics, necessity and peculiarities of scientific understanding in medicine, and (2) how medical ...read more
This research project investigates the way in which Leonhard Euler's optics, mechanics and acoustics, influenced the eighteenth century transition from early modern natural philosophy to modern science. The main question ...read more
This project focuses on the role of the novice, the expert(s) and society in dealing with scientific expertise. The relation between experts and stakeholders will be studied from three viewpoints: ...read more
The project was devoted to a comparative study of Fromondus’ and Descartes’ work on meteorology. It undertook a broad historiographical study of the status of meteorology in the early modern ...read more
My dissertation consists of a metaphilosophical investigation into the project of defining art. Many deem this project to be both impossible and futile. My two main objectives were: (1) to ...read more