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| Name | Dissertation title | Supervisor | Co-supervisor | Initial position | Current position | |
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| 2021-2022 | ||||||
| Willem Willems | 'Mind the Gap: Sartre's Anarchy of Thought and Freedom | Roland Breeur | ||||
| Seung Hyun Song | Language Loss and Injustice. A Structural Injustice Approach to Language Loss | Helder De Schutter | Eszter Kollar | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | idem | |
| Nora Timmermans | Popular Sovereignty and Liberal Democracy. From Marcel Gauchet to Benjamin Constant and Back | Raf Geenens | Stefan Sottiaux | Non-academic position: policy officer at Jonge Academie | idem | |
| Guido Niccolò Barbi | Technocracy and Political Truth. An Inquiry into the Singularity of Political Judgment | Antoon Braeckman | ||||
| Sandrine Rose Schiller Hansen | At the Edges of Change. Rereading Freud on Plasticity, Fluidity and Repetition | Paul Moyaert | ||||
| Viktor Poletko | After Public Reason. Convivial Pluralism in a Liberal Democracy | Guido Vanheeswijck | Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Ukrainian Catholic University | idem | ||
| Donald Chinonso Ude | The Idea of Interconnectedness in Igbo Subaltern Knowledges: A Quest for Identity in Response to Modernity | Antoon Braeckman | ||||
| Deva Waal | Everyday Philosophy. Husserlian doxa, Wittgensteinian Certainty and a Shared Turn Towards the Everyday | Julia Jansen | Martin Stokhof | Non-academic position: policy officer for the Partij voor de Dieren group in Amsterdam's city council | idem | |
| 2020-2021 | ||||||
| Jeremy Hovda | Kant's Philosophy of Education: Bildung, Culture, and the Varieties of Human Perfection | Henning Tegtmeyer | ||||
| Lars Arthur Tump | Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics: On Mathematical Explanations of Empirical Phenomena | Jan Heylen | ||||
| Rafael Van Damme | Sacred Power and Sacrificial Punishment. On Sacrifice as a Politico-Theological Paradigm for the History of Criminal Law | Antoon Braeckman | Wim Decock | Non-academic position: philosophy teacher at the European School, Brussels IV | idem | |
| Andrea Cimino | The Darkness of Non-Being. A Husserlian Phenomenological Clarification of Illusion and Hallucination | Julia Jansen | Claudio Majolino | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | idem | |
| Michael Nwokocha | Schopenhauer as a Philosopher of Compassion. An Inquiry into the Metaphysical Foundations of Morals in view of Schopenhauer's Perspective on Mitleid | William Desmond | ||||
| Kristofer Arca | Narrativity and Mnemonics. Selfhood and Memory in Ricoeur's Hermeneutics | Luc Anckaert | Assistant Professor, Miami Dade College | idem | ||
| Jordan Conrad | Nietzsche's Normative Ontology: An Evolutionary and Developmental Reconstruction | Paul Cortois | Dennis Vanden Auweele | Non-academic: psychotherapist at TriBeCa Therapy (New York) | idem | |
| Anne Polkamp | Responsibility for Climate Justice | Antoon Vandevelde |
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| Bendik Hellem Aaby | Organism-Environment Interactions in Evolutionary Theory | Grant Ramsey | Post-Doc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | idem | ||
| Brett Yardley | When To Trust Authoritative Testimony: Generation And Transmission Of Knowledge In Saadya Gaon, Al-Ghazālī, And Thomas Aquinas | Andrea Robiglio/Richard Taylor | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, DeSales University | idem | ||
| Veenus Joseph | The Mediating Role of Value in the Dialogue between Science and Religion: A. N. Whitehead, Merleau-Ponty, and Charles Taylor | Henning Tegtmeyer | Lecturer, Ruhalaya Major Seminar College of Philosophy (Ujjain, India) | Lecturer & Dean of Studies, Ruhalaya Major Seminar College of Philosophy (Ujjain, India) | ||
| Marina Schwark | Simplicius on Enmattered Forms | Jan Opsomer/Christophe Helmig | Postdoc, Fakultät für Philosophie, Wissenschaftstheorie und Religionswissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | idem | ||
| Sarah Stefanutti | A Debt to Bind us All. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Nature of Social Obligations in the Building of a Federal European Union | Helder De Schutter | Antoon Vandevelde | |||
| Yannick Van den Abbeel | Historical and philosophical perspectives on the development of mechanics and gravitational physics from Newton to Lagrange and Laplace | Karin de Boer/Steffen Ducheyne | Non-academic position: Collaborator KU Leuven Innovative Digital Learning Project | idem | ||
| Tim Christiaens | The Economic Theology of Neoliberalism: Foucault and Agamben on the History of Governmentality | Antoon Braeckman | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University | idem | ||
| Nicholas Zucchetti | Knowledge is Perception'. A Map of the First Part of Plato's Theaetetus | Jan Opsomer | Non-academic positions: IT Service Manager at Excellys; Service Center Coordinator International at Volvo Group | Non-academic position: IT Service Manager at Excellys | ||
| Samuel O'Connor Perks | Off-Modern Catholic Aesthetics. Rethinking the Role of Religion in 20th Century Art and Architecture | Stéphane Symons | Rajesh Heynickx | |||
| Felipe Andrés Morales Carbonell | Agentive Modality and the Structure of Modal Knowledge | Jan Heylen | Adjunct lecturer, Universidad de Chile | Postdoc, Universidad de Chile | ||
| Saskia Aerts | The Self-Moving Soul in Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonism of Proclus and Hermias | Jan Opsomer | Pieter d'Hoine | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | idem | |
| Siba Harb | Justice beyond Borders: Essays on Justice in a Globalized and Multi-Layered World | Helder De Schutter | Philippe Van Parijs | Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, King’s College London | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Tilburg University | |
| Pieter Beullens | A Methodological Approach to Anonymously Transmitted Medieval Translations of Philosophical and Scientific Texts. The Case of Bartholomew of Messina | Russell Friedman | Cecilia Trifogli | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | idem | |
| Di Huang | Temporality and the I. The Problem of the First-Person Perspective in Husserl and Sartre | Julia Jansen | Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, Peking University | idem | ||
| Yuen Hung Tai | History and Freedom: Phenomenological Studies of Hannah Arendt and Jan Patočka | Nicolas de Warren/Martine Leibovici | Lecturer, Department of Social Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong | Assistant professor, Institite of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University | ||
| 2019-2020 | ||||||
| Michael Jaworzyn | Causation and the Cartesian Mind after Geulincx | Andrea Robiglio | Stipendiary lecturer in philosophy, St Peter's College, Oxford University | |||
| Alberto Kobec | Genera, Categories, and Ordered Series. Plotinus' Nominalistic Interpretation of Aristotle's Categorial Scheme | Pieter d'Hoine | Jan Opsomer | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | idem | |
| Yu-Yuan Hung | Being-guilty and Sin: A Case Study Regarding the Relation Between Philosophy and Theology According to the Early Heidegger | Martin Moors | Postdoc, Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University (Taiwan) | idem | ||
| Manoj Francis | Human Flourishing and Transcendence. Charles Taylor: Between Radical Orthodoxy and Exclusive Secularism | William Desmond | Professor in Philosophy, St Thomas Apostolic seminary, Kottayam, Kerala, India | idem | ||
| Pieter Thyssen | The Block Universe: A Philosophical Investigation in Four Dimensions | Sylvia Wenmackers | Postdoc, Institut supérieur de philosophie, UCLouvain | idem | ||
| Marc Woons | Normativity, Power & Peripheral Nations | Tim Heysse | Helder De Schutter | Non-academic: Senior manager with the Government of British Columbia | Non-academic: Senior Manager with the Alberta Investment Management Corporation | |
| Sybren Heyndels | Philosophy as an Exercise in Conceptual Self-Consciousness. An Explication of P.F. Strawson's Philosophical Methodology | Stefan Rummens | Stefaan Cuypers | Postdoc, University College Dublin | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | |
| Maria Annemarije Hagen | Politics and Time. A Critical Inquiry into the Temporal Conditions of Modern Political Action | Antoon Braeckman | Robin Celikates | Lecturer in Politics, Psychology, Law & Economics, Universiteit van Amsterdam | idem | |
| Christiaan Boonen | A Theory of Insurgent Citizenship: Democratic Action Between Emancipation and Transformation | Antoon Braeckman | Post-Doc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | idem | ||
| Audun Benjamin Bengtson | The Concept of Moral Responsibility and Some Very General Facts of Nature: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment' | Stefaan Cuypers | Stefan Rummens | Non-academic: Teacher at a primary school | Non-academic: Advisor for the Norwegian Armed Forces at the Norwegian Defence University College | |
| Joris Spigt | Skepticism in Hegel's Philosophy | Henning Tegtmeyer | Assistant Professor, Universität Leipzig | idem | ||
| Olivia Brown | Two Ways to the Philosophy of Habit: Hegel and Bergson | Nicolas de Warren | ||||
| Romeo Domdii Cliff | Plato on the Art of Ruling and Law in the Statesman | Jan Opsomer | Non-academic: broker, Department of Brokerage for the United Parcel Service | idem | ||
| Guilel Treiber | On the Experience of Ourselves: An Analytics of Transgressive Resistance | Antoon Braeckman | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | |||
| Shierwin Agagen Cabunilas | National Minorities and a Philippine Federal Republic. Learning from Western Theories of Democracy and Ethnicity, and from Indigenous Reason | Antoon Vandevelde | Dean of Studies, San Pablo Seminary, School of Philosophy, Baguio City | Lecturer of philosophy, Graduate School of Law, San Beda University | ||
| Elise Frketich | Reinhold's Methodological Foundationalism: The Pursuit of Certainty in the Elementarphilosophie, Rational Realism, and Philosophy of Language | Karin de Boer | Michael Forster | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University | Postdoc, Human Abilities - Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities (Berlin) | |
| 2018-2019 | ||||||
| Valerina Mendonca | Panentheistic Interconnectedness: On the Revival of Metaphysics in A. N. Whitehead and P. Teilhard de Chardin | Henning Tegtmeyer | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola College (Autonomous), Chennai | idem | ||
| Maria Lovelyn Paclibar | Habermas on Education and Political Solidarity. An Exploration | Antoon Braeckman | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Ateneo de Manila University | idem | ||
| Giacomo Fornasieri | Teoria degli universali e conoscenza della realtà in Pietro Aureoli | Russell Friedman; Onorato Grassi | Postdoc, LUMSA, University in Rome | idem | ||
| Lorenzo Girardi | Crisis and Problematicity: Europe from the Perspectives of Edmund Husserl and Jan Patočka | Stefano Micali; Basil Vassilicos | Lecturer, University of Limerick | Non-academic: Knowlegde Base Writer at Wix | ||
| Brecht Buekenhout | Catching the Wren. Aristotle on One-Man Rule | Gerd Van Riel | ||||
| Mélanie Weill | Bergson et la Grande Guerre. Une généalogie contextualisée des Deux sources de la morale et de la religion | Nicolas de Warren | ||||
| Esma Baycan Herzog | Social Cohesion in Post-Migration Societies. In Defense of a Post-Migration Paradigm | Helder De Schutter, Matteo Gianni | Postdoc, Département de science politique et relations internationals, University of Geneva | idem | ||
| Hanna Vandenbussche | Le moi, idole d'une volonté désarmée. Pascal, critique de la liberté cartésienne | Roland Breeur, Pierre Guenancia | Non-academic: project collaborator Katholiek Onderwijs Vlaanderen | idem | ||
| Massimiliano Simons | The Raven and the Trojan Horse: Constructing Nature in Synthetic Biology | Paul Cortois | Postdoc, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University | idem | ||
| Jonas Rutgeerts | Unbecoming Rhythms. Performing Temporality in Contemporary Dance | Stéphane Symons | Rudi Laermans | Postdoc, Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven | idem | |
| Timothy Lopez | Beatitudo Imperfecta: An Anthology of the Concept in Aquinas and Renaissance Thomism (c. 1550 – c. 1650) | Andrea Robiglio | ||||
| Antonio Ramos Diaz | Mind and Formal Structures. On the Kripke-Ross Argument Against Naturalizing Formal Understanding | Henning Tegtmeyer | Jeff Buechner, Howard Robinson | Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of Puerto Rico (Ponce) | idem | |
| Thomas Byrne III | Husserl's Semiotics and Pure Grammar Reconsidered | Ullrich Melle | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Postdoc, Philosophy, University of Macau/Associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-Sen University | ||
| Wolter Hartog | Waarom een mens niet zichzelf kan zijn, maar wel zichzelf kan worden. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche en de problemen van een existentialistische deugdethiek | William Desmond | Paulus van Tongeren | Non-academic position: Teacher in secondary education | Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | |
| Sergi Morales Gálvez | The Languages of the Republic. A Republican Theory of Linguistic Justice | Helder De Schutter | Nenad Stojanovic | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Postdoc, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Limerick | |
| Daniel John Leufer | A Ship Bound to Shipwreck. Jan Patočka's Philosophy of History | Ernst Wolff | Non-academic: Artificial Intelligence Policy Research Intern at Access Now | Non-academic: Senior Policy Analyst at Access Now | ||
| Theogene Havugimana | Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Politics. A Systematic Inquiry into Freedom and Determinism in Kant's Political Philosophy | Bart Raymaekers | Martin Moors | Visiting professor at the St Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary - Philosophicum (Rwanda)/ Non-academic: priest of the diocese of Nyundo (Rwanda); parish priest in Haacht (Belgium) | Visiting professor at the St Thomas Aquinas Major Seminary - Philosophicum (Rwanda); professor at Domuni Universitas/ Non-academic: priest of the diocese of Nyundo (Rwanda); parish priest in Haacht (Belgium); National Director of Missio Belgium | |
| Bernd Hene | Ein anonymer Kommentar zu Platons Theaitetos und seine philosophische Bedeutung | Jan Opsomer | ||||
| Nicolás Brando Cadena | Not Just for Kids: Childhood, Equality and the Limits of Freedom in Liberal Theory | Helder De Schutter | Jan Wouters | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Postdoc, School of Law, University of Liverpool | |
| Liesbeth Schoonheim | The Limits of Tragedy. Arendt's Philosophy of Remembrance | Raf Geenens | Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam | Postdoc, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | ||
| 2017-2018 | ||||||
| Joel Hubick | The Phenomenology of Questioning | Julia Jansen | Direct Care Worker in a Group Home | idem | ||
| Patrick Eldridge | Having a Past and Being a Past. Husserl's Phenomenology of Remembrance | Ullrich Melle | Nicolas de Warren | Assistant Professor, Humanities and Languages, University of New Brunswick in Saint John | Associate Professor, Humanities and Languages, University of New Brunswick in Saint John | |
| Eleonora Mingarelli | The Home of Interest. The Varieties of the Jamesian Self | Nicolas de Warren | Non-academic: Study advisor, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Non-academic: Study advisor and ombudsperson, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | ||
| Lisa Devriese | The Body as a Mirror of the Soul. An Inquiry into the Reception of Pseudo-Aristotle's Physiognomonica in the Middle Ages | Pieter De Leemans | Russell Friedman | Post-Doc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Professor, Institute of Philosophy, KU leuven | |
| Chao Lu | Kant's Theory of Radical Evil and the Limit of Free Will | William Desmond | Martin Moors | |||
| Weijia Wang | The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Agreeable. An Interpretation and Reconstruction of Kant's Critique of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment | Bart Raymaekers | Lecturer, School of Philosophy, Fudan University | Associate professor, School of Philosophy, Fudan University | ||
| Mareike Hauer | The explanation of qualitative properties in Simplicius' Commentary on Aristotle's Categories | Jan Opsomer | Pieter d'Hoine | Postdoc, Thomas-Institut, University of Cologne | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | |
| Donald Devon | Foundations for a Lonerganean-based Natural Theology | William Desmond | Lecturer, Religion Department, Harford Community College | Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Community College of Baltimore County/Philosophy Department, Towson University/Religion Department, Harford Community College | ||
| Gesa Wellmann | The idea of a metaphysical system in Lambert, Kant, Reinhold, and Fichte | Karin de Boer | Postdoc, Departement Künste, Medien, Philosophie, Universität Basel | Postdoc, Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Bergische Universität Wuppertal | ||
| Emmanuel Crispino Gameli Akakpo | Global Constitutionalism. The Jurisdictional Endgame of Immigration Theory | Helder De Schutter | Lecturer and Researcher, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen | Lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen | ||
| Michaël Bauwens | The Metaphysics of Institutions. Powers, Contingency and Freedom | Filip Buekens | Non-academic position: editor in chief for Middelares en Koningin / Médiatrice et Reine | Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp | ||
| Marshall Cody Staton | Kant’s Multifaceted Theory of the Imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason | Karin de Boer | Research Associate, Sun Yat-Sen University | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Kennesaw State University | ||
| Dorine Vergote | Het ritornel. Een nieuw concept | Roland Breeur | Non-academic position: self-employed assistant at a lawyer's office | idem | ||
| David Loyd Dusenbury | The World City: A Reconstruction of Nemesius of Emesa's De Natura Hominis (390 CE) | Gerd Van Riel | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Visiting Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest | ||
| Barbara Bartocci | Dialectical Reasoning and Topical Argument in the Middle Ages: an Inquiry into the Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics (1250-1500) | Andrea Robiglio, Joël Biard (Université François-Rabelais de Tours) | Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews | Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva; Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews | ||
| Arul Raj Madalai Muthu | The Ambivalence of Gift-Giving: Between Altruism and Economic Exchange | Antoon Vandevelde | Dean of Studies, St. Joseph's Capuchin Philosophical College | Visiting faculty, St. Joseph's Capuchin Philosophical College; Non-academic: parish priest at St. Francis of Assisi Church, Arch Diocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore | ||
| 2016-2017 | ||||||
| Marieke Brugnera | Het weerwoord van de Enkelinge. Een reactief onderzoek naar zelfbedrog, het bedrieglijke zelf en het verlangen in waarheid te leven | Paul Moyaert | Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Non-academic position: freelance investigative journalist | ||
| Johan Jop Mathijs van de Sande | Prefiguration(s). Philosophical Reconstruction of a Repertoire of Political Change | Tim Heysse | Tim Heysse | Assistant professor, Practical Philosophy, Radboud University | idem | |
| Liesbet Samyn | Sustaining what falls back. The Unhappy Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Kierkegaard's pseudonymous work | William Desmond | ||||
| Corijn van Mazijk | Husserl on Concepts in Perception | Nicolas de Warren & Detlev Pätzold | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen | idem | ||
| Falk Hamann | Personhood and Community. Ontological, Normative, and Anthropological Aspects of Human Sociality | Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer & Henning Tegtmeyer | Postdoc, Institut für Philosophie, University of Regensburg | Non-academic positions: Assistant Editor at “Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie” (ZTP), PTH Sankt Georgen; Referent at the Catholic Academy of the Diocese of Dresden-Meißen | ||
| Paolo Torri | Homoiōsis theōi. A study of the telos in Middle Platonism | Mauro Bonazzi & Jan Opsomer | Non-academic position: Teacher of Classics, St. Edward’s School, Oxford, UK | idem | ||
| Jinzhou Ye | The Prospects of Public Reason. On the Attainability of a Rawlsian Well-Ordered Society | Bart Raymaekers | Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) | Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) | ||
| Adele-France Jourdan | The (Not So) Monstrous Condition. A Phenomenological Reading of Alterity | William Desmond | ||||
| Serena Massolini | Petrus de Rivo (ca. 1420-1499): Portrait(s) of a Louvain Master | Russell Friedman | Violet Soen | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Postdoc, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki | |
| Brian Garcia | A Portrait of Philosophical Psychology in the 15th Century: Dominic of Flanders on Particular and Universal Knowledge (With an Edition of Book III of his Expositio super libros de anima) | Andrea Robiglio | Non-academic position: Teacher, Great Hearts Monte Vista, San Antonio, Texas | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Assumption University (Worcester) | ||
| Hugh Desmond | Life's Plot. Contingencies and Symmetries in Evolutionary History | Andreas De Block | Grant Ramsey | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp | |
| Mona-Ioana Simionescu | Assertion: The Context Sensitivity Dilemma | Roger Vergauwen, Patrick Greenough (University of St Andrews) | Christopher Kelp | |||
| Cristian Alexandru Pelin Raducu | La procession du principe unifié chez Damascius | Gerd Van Riel, Filip Karfik (Université de Fribourg) | Non-academic position: security consultant specialized in risk, compliance and information security governance | idem | ||
| Sean Winkler | A Study of Individuality and Change in Spinoza's Philosophy | Karin de Boer | Mogens Laerke, CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon | Postdoc, National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) | Lecturer, Loyola Marymount University; Lecturer, University of Redlands | |
| Simon Truwant | The philosophical stakes of the 'Davos debate': Cassirer and Heidegger on Kant, the human condition, and the task of philosophy | William Desmond | Karin de Boer | Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven; Non-academic position: administrative assistant, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | Postdoc, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven | |
| Annelies Decat | The Alterity Beyond the Horizon. Decolonizing Global Citizenship | Antoon Braeckman |