Research projects
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The Convergence of Franciscan, Vatican, and African Thought on the Environmental Crisis: A Biopolitical Approach
This project aims to develop a philosophical post-capitalist theoretical and conceptual framework regarding humanity’s relationship with life and the environment, drawing on Franciscan, Vatican, and African Thought
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When Rome Lost the Golden Age
This project aims to investigate the attempted transition into modernity, endeavoured by several literary and academic circles in Rome at the end of the seventeenth century by re-examining the academic culture and its institutions in the city.
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i² - The Impossible and the Imaginable
The project explores Marsilius of Inghen’s semantics of imaginable impossibilities, its later reception and possible influences.
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Mary Whiton Calkins (1863 – 1930) and the Rise of Modern Psychology
This PhD project will be the first comprehensive overview study of Calkins’s philosophical thought regarding the foundations, methods and implications of psychology.
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Why the World Has Only One Agent: A Philosophical Comparison of Muslim and Christian Occasionalism
The aim of this research is to compare arguments for and against occasionalism, as well as the underlying worldviews and conceptions of God in the Islamic and Christian traditions.
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Aphoristic forms of writing in Lebensphilosophie
This research project aims to investigate the historico-philosophical significance of the aphoristic forms of writing that were practiced by authors of the Lebensphilosophie movement.
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Contesting Modernity: The Suppression of Atomism (1640 – 1680)
This project aims to reconstruct the Catholic responses to the new currents at the heyday of the atomistic revival (1640-1680) and to map the internal struggles taking place within the Church and its institutions.