Wouter Veldman is currently working on a research project on Nietzsche, nihilism, and the Anthropocene, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Benjamin Biebuyck. For this research, he has been awarded funding for fundamental research by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). The project uses Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of nihilism to better understand the nihilistic dimensions in current environmental discourses on the Anthropocene. Together with Ghent University’s Green Office, he is also a co-organizer of the upcoming trans-disciplinary Doctoral School on global environmental crises. In 2024, he contributed a chapter on Nietzsche’s philosophy of truthfulness for a reader’s guide to Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Dutch publishing house Boom.
Wouter Veldman completed both a Master’s in Practical and Continental Philosophy and a Research Master’s in Philosophical Ethics (both cum laude) at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). While working on his research proposal, he worked as programme maker for Radboud Reflects, an important player in the dissemination and public mobilization of research and innovative insights in the Netherlands.
At Ghent University, he has continued prioritizing public outreach by presenting his research at public events, such as public lectures at the yearly Dag van de Filosofie and public library De Krook ('Wie is er bang voor het nihilisme?'), public reading groups, and once even on a little raft as a ‘floating philosopher’. He has taught introductory courses on ethics and political philosophy for students in both philosophy and business administration at Radboud University, more advanced MA philosophy classes on Nietzsche’s genealogy of truth and power at Ghent University, as well as guest lectures at the Dutch International School for Philosophy (ISVW) and Erasmus University College (Rotterdam, the Netherlands).
