Our Speakers at the 37th Dutch-Flemish Day of Philosophy
Our programme committee selected 12 excellent abstracts out of 31 international submissions.
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Alice Breemen
Alice Breemen graduated in Theatre Studies and Media and Performance Studies from Utrecht University, and obtained her MA Philosophy from Tilburg University. Her research interests are performance philosophy and the changing role of the audience in theatre and democracy. Currently she works as an independent researcher, and aims to pursue a PhD at the crossroads of theatre studies and philosophy. Also, she practices martial arts and holds a 1st dan degree in Wado Karate.
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Lisa Doeland
Lisa Doeland received a BA in Literary Studies and a BA and MA in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She works as an organizer of lectures and debates at Radboud University Nijmegen and writes for several Dutch magazines. She is interested in the (the ontology of) waste, capitalism and desire, spectrality, hauntology, dark ecology, the uncanny and apocalyptic thought. She works on a PhD-thesis on the spectrality of waste as an external candidate.
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Marielle Ekkelenkamp
Mariëlle Ekkelenkamp is a Research Master student at Utrecht University with an interest in the intersection between philosophy, aesthetics and art history. Presently she is participating in an exchange programme with the KU Leuven. She earned a BA degree in philosophy and art history at Leiden University and the University of Amsterdam. Her current research focuses on the interplay between artistic practices, media and philosophical ideas in nineteenth-century Western Europe.
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Joris Graff
Joris Graff (1994) is a research master student in philosophy at the University of Groningen. His main interests lie in the philosophy of mind and in the philosophy of science, and particularly in the intersection of both, the philosophy of neuroscience. He is currently working on the implications of neuroscientific research for psychological models.
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Maria del Rosario Martinez-Ordaz
María is a PhD student in Philosophy of Science at UNAM (Mexico). She is currently doing her second research stay at Ghent University. Her research interests lie at the intersection between logic and philosophy of science; with a specific focus on the paraconsistent formal tools used to study inconsistencies in empirical sciences. Her current supervisor is Luis Estrada-González.
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Lotte Spreeuwenberg
Lotte Spreeuwenberg is a PhD student at University of Antwerp, working on the question whether we can have a duty to love and whether this applies to parents and children. Lotte obtained her MA Philosophy, Science and Society cum laude at Tilburg University, while teaching social sciences and a basic variant of applied ethics at intermediate vocational education (MBO). She translates her academic research to philosophy blogs for a broader audience on lottespreeuwenberg.wordpress.com.
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Emily Sullivan
Dr. Emily Sullivan is a Research Post-doc at TU Delft working on the project “Scaffolding the Media for Intellectually Humble Discourse” funded by the Templeton Foundation. She completed her PhD in philosophy at Fordham University. Her research focuses on the intersection of the epistemology of understanding and the nature of scientific explanation.
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Hans van Eyghen
I grew up in Deinze (Flemish region, Belgium). I completed a study in Theology and Religious Studies and one in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven. My mastertheses were on William Craig’s Cosmological argument and on Ernst Troeltsch’s cultural philosophy. Before that I also studied History for one year at the University of Ghent. After finishing my master in Philosophy, I moved to the Netherlands to get my PhD.
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Piet Wiersma
Piet Wiersma is a masterstudent in philosophy and political science at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He specializes in political philosophy and philosophical antropology, and is interested in themes such as (inter)subjectivity, identity, community, democracy and conflict. For the past two years Piet has served as editor-in-chief of Splijtstof, the faculty magazine of the philosophy department in Nijmegen.
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Cigdem Yazici
Çiğdem Yazıcı received her BA and MA degrees in Philosophy at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul, Tukey). In 2010, she completed her Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Memphis (US, Tennessee) with a thesis on the connections between the Idea of Historical People and the Work of Art in Heidegger and started her academic career as an Assist. Prof. in the Department of Philosophy at Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey). Between 2010-2016 at Koç University, she taught many courses and did research in the areas of Ethics, Political Philosophy, 20th Century European Philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race and Gender Studies. As of the academic year 2016-2017, she joined the Department of Philosophy at Üsküdar University, Istanbul.
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