Research projects
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Amor Mundi
This collaboration builds on a shared interests in contemporary ecological theory and philosophy and seeks to develop the sense of what “amor mundi” (love of the world) means in a time of social and ecological crises (i.e., poly-crisis).
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Between Biology and Ethics: The Concept of Drive in Schelling's Philosophy
The focus of this research is Schelling's philosophy of nature in general, and the concept of drive in particular, as it develops from his early philosophy of nature and freedom up to 1809.
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Phenomenology and Naturalism
This PhD project concerns the concept of ‘naturalism’ and its meaning in the philosophical projects of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
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Planet and Plot: Imagining Humanity in the Anthropocene
Departing from a collection of novels dealing with climate change, this project investigates if and how literature can give a figure to being-human in the Anthropocene.
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A World of Value
This dissertation explores the ways in which Nietzsche’s experimentalism has been received in secondary literature, and argues that it should have been received differently.
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Drive and Trauma in Freudian Metapsychology
This project aims to offer a reading and analysis of Freuds Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
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Sites for Unlearning
One the one hand, this project is a philosophical investigation into unlearning. And on the other hand, it is an action research project which attempts to set in motion a collective process of unlearning within a concrete educational setting.
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The Powers that Be
This project focusses on the ontology of powers: what are powers? More about this project can be read here.
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Between Biology and Ethics: The Concept of Drive in Classical German Philosophy
This project is a historical and systematic study of the concept of drive within classical German philosophy.
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Phenomenology of Testimony
In this project, prof. dr. Gert-Jan van der Heiden aims to offer a more profound, ontological sense of testimony.
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Animal Imagination in human and non-human animals: a phenomenological paradigm
This project develops a new phenomenology of animal imagination and investigates the role human and non-human imaginations play in the development of the science of animals in need of re-foundation.
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Continental Philosophy and Happiness
This project aims to chart the philosophical potential of happiness in contemporary continental thought.