Research
An overview of the research projects and doctoral projects at the CESPF
An overview of the research projects and doctoral projects at the CESPF
Research projects of research team Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
- Private vices and virtues, public benefits and costs: the complex interplay between motivations and policies.
- Denken aan de universiteit. Gedifferentieerde doelstellingen en leeromgevingen voor het OPO Filosofe aan de KU Leuven.
- Democratic representation beyond the nation-state. The debate on European democracy as a test case for a French liberal model.
- Justice, luck and responsibility. A philosophical inquiry with implications for health care ethics.
- The transparency of governance and the invisibility of power. An inquiry into the deficiencies of democratic representation in transnational institutions.
- Citizenship and public space in the post-national constellation.
- Democracy and Globalization. An Investigation into the Effects of Globalization on the Identity, Institutions, and Governance of Democratic Societies.
- Federalism, Nationality and Justice: A Politico-Philosophical Study of the Value of Federalism in the Present Political Constellation.
Doctoral projects of research team Centre for Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy
- Jurgen Habermas on Education in the Context of Globalization.
- Self, instrumentalism, and politics. A reassessment of Charles Taylor's onto-historical analysis o the malaise of modernity.
- Mogelijkheid en onmogelijkheid: over het belang van de ontologie van de verzwakking in de hermeneutiek.
- The knowledge of rules and the rules of knowledge: Hayek on the problem of social order as a problem of knowledge.
- Citizenship as a Principle of Inclusion and Exclusion: A Critical Assessment of Cosmopolitan Citizenship.
- Abstract and organic: Riegl - Worringer - Wöfflin and their 20th century elaborations.
- Ecological corrections of liberal egalitarianism and of communitarianism: towards a distinct ecological political theory.
- A Falsificationist Approach to the Rational Criticism of Public Policy.
- Deciding what is due to whom: Thomas Hobbes on Justice.
- Towards a personalist republicanism: personhood and citizenship in Ricoeur.
- Rechtvaardigheid, toeval en verantwoordelijkheid: een wijsgerig onderzoek met gezondheidsethische implicaties.
- Redistribution and Recognition: The Normative Grounds of a Theory of Justice .
- Modern time-consciousness: philosophy and politics of history - Leo Strauss on history and truth in the relation of theory and praxis.
- A defence of 'the human being theory' in the contemporary debate about identity on the basis of the concept'strongly embodied meaning'.
- Subjectivity in Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion.
- Personal identity and the formal self.
- The self as subject and the self as object. A study into the role of the body for the understanding of self-consciousness.
- De rol van morele verontwaardiging in een herstelgerichte strafpraktijk.
- Friendship, Love and the Logic of the Gift in Nietzsche.
- The logic of the gift between altruism and economic exchange: Re-visiting the Logic of Gift-giving and Reciprocal obligation.
- The Dark Side of Freedom - Liberalism and Imperialism in Tocqueville.
- The transparency of governance and the invisibilty of power. An inquiry into the definciencies of democratic representation in transnational institutions.
- The moral philosophy van Aurel Kolnai (1900-1973).
- The transparency of governance and the invisibilty of power. An inquiry into the definciencies of democratic representation in transnational institutions.
- Luck, desert and responsibility.
- Global Justice and Global Democracy.
- EQUALITY OF CAPABILITIES OF RESOURCES A Comparative Study of Sen's and Dworkin's Theory of Freedom, Markets and Justice.
- Performative Political Agency Between Governmentality and Empowerment.
- The Prospects of Global Public Reason.
- Self-consciousness and unity of consciousness. An investigation of the relation between self-consciousness and unity of consciousness and of the nature of self-consciousness.
- Immigrants and Exclusion. Should Borders be Open?
- The Existentialis Case.
