Dissertations
Current PhD projects
- Nele Buyst, Bio-Kin-Tsugi as a transdisciplinary instrument to bridge the gap between science and society
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for Ethics) and Leni Van Goidsenhoven (UvA)
- François-Lucien Vulliermet, Pollution and responsibility
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Varsha Paleri, The ethics of synthetic biology
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Daan Kenis: Precision medicine from the margins: a standpoint-epistemological exploration of a new paradigm in medicine.
Advisors: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics) en Kurt Boonen (VITO KULeuven)
- David Schoute, Ethics in Enactivism: a Pragmatic Approach.
Advisors: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics) en Erik Myin (Centrum voor Wijsgerige Psychologie)
- Joke Struyf, Het feministisch potentieel van moederschap
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Lisanne Meinen, Experiencing Difference. What can we learn from video games regarding the experience of psychiatric diagnoses
Advisors: Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Centre for ethics) en Kristien Hens (Centrum voor Ethiek)
- Yanni Ratajczyk, Imagination and Moral Reasoning. Creative Imagination in Moral Option Generation.
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Emma Moormann, Collective Responsibility for Epigenetic Health
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Gert-Jan Van Aken, Ethics of early detection and intervention for autism: a disability ethics approach.
Advisor: Jean Steyaert (KULeuven), Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Amber De Kock, The problem of implicit bias and the limits of moral responsibility
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
Defended dissertations
- Emma Moormann,Collective Responsibility for Epigenetic Health
Defended: May 22 2023
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centrum voor ethiek)
- Gert-Jan Van Aken, Ethics of early detection and intervention for autism: a disability ethics approach.
Defended: May 20 2023
Advisors: Jean Steyaert (KULeuven), Kristien Hens (Centrum voor ethiek
- Hannah Lingier, A Humean religiosity: on the pleasure of beautiful wholes and the value of uncertainty
Defended: May 26 2023
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Esther Kroeker (Centre for ethics)
- Lotte Spreeuwenberg, Love and Morality. Taking Iris Different Places.
Defended: March 10 2023
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Jo Bervoets, Tourette's seen through a theoretical lens
Defended: 2 september 2022
Advisors: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics), Jean Steyaert (KULeuven)
- Martha Claeys, On Pride, The Morality and Politics of an Emotion
Defended: May 21 2021
Advisors: Guy Vanheeswijck (Centre for European Philosophy), Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Delphine Jacobs, Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis in young children: A clinical-ethical study on the experiences of parents and physicians
Defended: October 7 2019
Advisors: Kris Dierickx (KULeuven), Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics), Jean Steyaert (KULeuven)
- Henk van Gils, On how practical identities form a successful guide for practical deliberation: unification and exploration as ideal
Defended: April 2019
Advisors: Micha Werner (Universität Greifswald) en Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Jo Badisco, The international crisis in taxation: a critical analysis from a natural law perspective
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Bruno Peeters (Faculty of Law, Antwerp Tax Academy)
- Rob Compaijen, Practical Reasons and Existential Change. Kierkegaard, Williams, and the Internal Point of View.
Defended: May 13 2016
Advisors: Johan Taels (Centre for ethics), Paul Van Tongeren (KUNijmegen)
Defended: June 9 2016
Advisors: Guy Vanheeswijck (Centrum voor Europese Filosofie), Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)
- Rudmer Bijlsma, Spinoza, Hume, and the politics of imagination : naturalism, narrative, enlightenment
Defended: January 30 2015
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Piet Steenbakkers (Universiteit Utrecht)
- François Levrau, Van multiculturalisme naar pluriforme accommodatie?
Defended: December 2014
Advisors: Patrick Loobuyck (Centre for ethics/Centre Pieter Gillis) en Chris Timmerman
- Sven Braspenning, Normative Democratic Theory and the Realities of Public Moral Disagreement: the Case of Deliberative Ideals
Defended: December 17 2012
Advisors: Maurice Adams (Tilburg University), Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)
Defended: September 18 2012
Advisor: Patrick Loobuyck (Centre for ethics/Centre Pieter Gillis)
- Katharina Paxman, Feeling, Impulse and Changeability. The Role of Emotion in Hume’s Theory of the Passions
Defended: September 17 2010
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)
- Bram Goetschalckx, Legal Theory and Legal Praxis. An Essay in Hermeneutical Philosophy,
Defended: May 25 2010
Advisors: Maurice Adams (Faculty of Law), Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)
- Petra Van Brabandt, Social Morality in the second Enquiry. Hume’s Philosophy and Rhetoric. A Feminist Reading
Defended: September 1 2008
Advisor: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)