1,001 search results for “philosophy” in the Public website
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Rozemund Uljée
Faculty of Humanities
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James McAllister
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicholas Vrousalis, 'Exploitation: A Primer'
Political scientist Nicholas Vrousalis (Leiden University) reviews the recent literature on exploitation. He istinguishes between three main species of exploitation theory: (a) teleology-based (including harm and mutual benefit) accounts, (b) respect-based (including mere means, force, rights, and fairness)…
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Maurits de Jongh, Is Political Liberalism Self-Defeating?
Political scientist Maurits de Jongh (Leiden University/Sciences Po) argues that political liberalism is self-defeating as a framework of justification for liberal conceptions of justice. He explores how the framework's self-imposed criterion of acceptability in the eyes of all reasonable citizens leads…
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Reception in Nietzsche’s Concept of Amor Fati
To what extent can Nietzsche's Amor Fati be seen as a Stoic concept?
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Dialogues as a Dynamic Framework for Logic
This dissertation shows that dialogical logic constitutes a powerful and flexible general framework for the development and study of various logical formalisms and combinations thereof.
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Jaap Corthals
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Enes Sütütemiz
Faculty of Humanities
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Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Neuteboom
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Dorota Mokrosinska
Faculty of Humanities
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Frank Chouraqui
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthew Longo
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bart Labuschagne
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Victor Gijsbers
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerard Versluis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Reasons and Intentions
There are a number of problems in philosophy that seem to share a similar possible solution: 'Why do promises and contracts bind?', 'Why ought citizens and judges obey the law?' and 'Can we realize the gains to be made from cooperation?'. All three problems (as well as some others) share a possible…
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Towards a political ontology of violence: reality, image and perception
The aim of this project is to study what makes an act or form of violence a specifically political reality.
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NWO Veni grant for Thomas Fossen
Dr Thomas Fossen (Institute for Philosophy) has been awarded with an NWO Veni grant for his research project 'Critical moments: How do events affect how we should judge the legitimacy of political authorities?'
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Coping with Versnel: A Roundtable on Religion and Magic
Henk Versnel's work on ancient religion has been seminal. For his 80th birthday, a group of scholars assembled to celebrate and analyze his oeuvre.
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Democratic Secrecy: A Philosophical Study of the Role of Secrecy in Democratic Governance
The starting hypothesis of the project is that secrecy is not always inimical to democratic governance as conventional wisdom has it.
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Multisensorial Experience' in The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy
Marcel Cobussen wrote the essay “Listening as a Multisensorial Experience” for The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy.
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Intercultural Philosophy as Philosophy: Some Remarks on Leiden Philosophy’s Mission
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Sharia in the West
This research projects wants to know what Muslims in the West do and mean by ‘Sharia’, and how the Western legal system responds to that. The focus is on Sharia as an informal practice by Muslims in the West, i.e. other than through state law or state courts.
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Mark Rutgers
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlon Kruizinga
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Sebo Uithol
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Herman Siemens
Faculty of Humanities
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Thomas Fossen
Faculty of Humanities
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Formalizations après la lettre. Studies in Medieval Logic and Semantics
This thesis attempts to establish a dialogue between the modern and the medieval traditions in logic, by means of ‘translations’ of the medieval logical theories into the modern framework of symbolic logic, i.e. formalizations.
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Jesse Sarneel
Faculty of Humanities
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Timo Slootweg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Arie-Jan Kwak
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Andjelka Petreski
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Zhong Chua
Faculty of Humanities
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Bruno Verbeek
Faculty of Humanities
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Josette Daemen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts. Vernacular Literature and Learning in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550)
The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultural region in the later Middle Ages.
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The philosophers at the Institute of Philosophy develop new perspectives and insights not only on fundamental philosophical questions, but also on topical and interdisciplinary themes such as secrecy, migration, climate change, the politics of truth and intercultural relations.