Human life? From philosophy of life to philosophical anthropology: a transnational and transdisciplinary inquiry.

A re-examination of the Kantian distinction between discursive and symbolic language vis à vis the reception of Kantian philosophy in the Chinese context

Doctoral project Anton Froeyman

Doctoral project Chern-An Lin

Doctoral project Dieter De Grave

Doctoral project Elisabeth Van Dam

Doctoral project Jan-Jasper Persijn

Doctoral project Ludwig Vandevelde

Doctoral project Xuansong Liu

Doctoral project Yu Chen

"Emancipation of insanity, deathdrive revisited"

Emotions Versus Reason: An Appraisal of the Notion of Empathy in Edmund Husserl's and Edith Stein's Phenomenology

Imminent art: articulation of its disruptive emancipatory potential on the basis of a negative ontological account

Kant's Epigenetic Segue into the Synthetic A Priori: Deriving the Categories as a Critique of Predication

Philosophical Anthropology between Naturalism and Idealism: An inquiry into the alternative conception of philosophy by Scheler, Plessner and Gehlen in 1900-1940 Germany.

Reconsidering Freud's Metapsychology and its Implications for the Mind-Brain problem in light of the Computer Paradigm

The disciplinary concern: On the Systematization, History and Practive of a Philosophy after the Žižekian Synthesis.

The role of listening in the subjective constitution of reality. A critical philosophical-psychoanalytical approach.

The Semiotic Logic of Subjectivity

Doctoral project Jasper Feyaerts

A Future for Philosophical Anthropology? Historical Ontology as a Critical Project

Bodies and laws. Close connections between transcendental philosophy, philosophy of biology and psychoanalysis.

BOF-ZAP professorship in psychoanalysis

Bringing Bergson Back into the History and Philosophy of Biology

Development of a philosophical theory for a historiography of the subject, the life-world en experience.

Ethics and aesthetics are one. Development of a contemporay transcendental approach starting from Kant and Wittgenstein

How can the radical Enlightenment be actualized without losing its radical character? Fichte's "radical Enlightenment" and its significance for the contemporary philosophical debate about individual freedom, tolerance and pluralism.

Immanuel Kant’s Deduction of the Categories of Quantity as a Stepping Stone to Exploring the Relation between Transcendental and Formal Logic and their respective Metaphysical Implications

Imminent art: articulation of its disruptive emancipatory potential on the basis of a negative ontological account

Kant and the “Oriental” poverty in concepts: A re-examination of the Kantian distinction between discursive and symbolic language in light of the reception of Kant’s thought in Chinese philosophy

Neurological turn

Organic constitution and historicized necessity. The development of a contemporary transcendental philosophy of co-constitution

Perception and agency. Helmholtz's psycho-physiological optics as a forerunner of the contemporary agentive/sensorimotor approach to human vision

Philosophical study of the status of systems biology in the current molecular biology: theoretical and practical confrontation between 'reductionism / gencentrisme' and 'holism / complexity thinking'

The modern subject in contemporary political philosophy. An epistemological and metaphysical analysis of the postfoundational perspective on subjectivity.

Transcendental grammar: Towards a Kantian account of the origin of language

Transcendental Materialism and its Disciplinary Concern' - On the Systematization, History and Practice of a Philosophy after the Žižekian Synthesis

UGent Human Rights Research Network

Vitalism: A Counter-History of Biology

BOF-ZAP professorship in psychoanalysis