Doctoral project Dietlinde Wouters

Doctoral project Dirk Josephus Leys

Doctoral project Jan De Winter

Doctoral project Jan Willem Wieland

Doctoral project Karina Makhnev

Doctoral project Merel Lefevere

Doctoral project Raoul Gervais

Evidence-based policy, causal mechanisms and causal narratives

Explaining emotional memory: incorporating emotional memory within new metatheories frameworks of memory

Explanation in the engineering sciences: IBE, causal modelling, and (fictional) mechanisms in failure analysis and safety science

Philosophy of Evidence-Based Policy

Physics and Metaphysics. Investigating ‘Metaphysical Drive’ and the Practice of Answering ‘Big Questions’ Embedded in Contemporary Physics.

Doctoral project Agnieszka Rostalska

Doctoral project Anton Froeyman

Alliance Research Group: Logic, History & Philosophy of Science

And so on infinitely. An analysis of infinite regress arguments in philosophy

An Evidence-Based Framework for the Normative Macrostudy of Science

A philosophical investigation into the nature and value of Evidence-based Policy

A Philosophical Investigation into the Practice and the Virtues of Evidence-Based Policy

Causation and Genetic Diseases. A Philosophical Study of Causal Selection Practices in Epidemiology

Computers and Mathematics: a historical and systematic study of the interactive use of the computer in mathematics.

Developing a context-sensitive support tool prototype for interdisciplinary research using contemporary insights from computational linguistics and philosophy of science.

Evaluating the pursuit worthiness of epistemic objects and application driven research

Exclusion of social groups and their perspectives from the scientific debate: problems and solutions.

Explanation in Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Explanation in the Engineering Sciences

Explanatory power of mechanistic and functional explanations

FWO Sabbatical Erik Weber

History, Ethics and Politics in a Pluralistic Society

Interdisciplinarity, causation and explanatory pluralism in the biomedical sciences

Logical and Methodological Analysis of Scientific Reasoning Processes

Machines in technology, science, and philosophy 1600.

Mathematical Explanation: Why Does It Matter?

Objectivity, impartiality and scientific pluralism.

Panpsychism in the West

Philosophical and Science Philosophical Methodologies after Newton.

Philosophy of Scientific Practice

Physical causation versus causation in physics: physical setups and causal relations in practice.

Pragmatic Theory of Scientific Explanation.

Problems and Paradigms. Towards a Pragmatic Epistemology of Science for Society.

Revolutions, research traditions and rationality

Risk Factor Knowledge in Medical Sciences. A Philosophical Analysis of Benefits and Potential Dangers

Science, expertise and democracy

Scientific understanding in medicine

Towards a contextualist theory of cross-disciplinary knowledge-generation processes.

Varieties of Causation in Genetics

Contextual and formal-logical approach to scientific problem solving processes

Mathematical theories with parsimonious ontologies: their strengths and limitations

Towards a Mixed Definition of Art. The Ontology of ‘First Art’ and the Historical Definitions of Art.