Our Speakers at the 36th Dutch-Flemish Day of Philosophy
Our programme committee selected 13 excellent abstracts out of 25 submissions. Eva Meijer accepted our invitation and will deliver the keynote speech. Sjors Talsma will connect philosophy and poetry to round-off the event.
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In 2016 the book Dierentalen (Animal Languages), a popular philosophical book about nonhuman animal languages and the question what language actually is, was published by the ISVW. Her latest novel Het vogelhuis (Cossee) , a fictional biography of bird scientist Len Howard, was recently published. More information on http://www.evameijer.nl/
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Job de Grefte
Job is a PhD candidate in philosophy from the University of Groningen. His main work is in epistemology, with a particular focus on the Internalism/Externalism debate and various accounts of epistemic luck. He also has interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind and metaphysics.
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Gregory de Vleeschouwer
Greg Houwer (1980) – Gregory De Vleeschouwer – publiceerde een Engelstalig filosofisch boek over Kafka, een academisch boek over persoonsidentiteit, en een filosofisch boek voor een breed publiek over identiteit en zelfbewustzijn. Hij schrijft ook romans en muziek. Momenteel is hij docent aan de Odisee-hogeschool in Brussel. Meer info: www.greghouwer.wordpress.com
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Marlies Debrael
Marlies Debrael graduated in Communication Studies and in Philosophy and Ethics at the Free University of Brussels. Marlies loves working on ethical issues relating to the media and society. She is currently related to the Laboratory for Education and Society at the Catholic University of Leuven where she provides educational assistance to philosophical and methodological courses.
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Lily Frank
Dr. Lily Eva Frank received her Ph.D. degree from The Graduate Center, The City University of New York in 2014 for a thesis on moral motivation and metaethics. From 2007 to 2013 she was an ethics fellow in the Bioethics Department of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Since 2015, she is an Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology. Her research focuses on moral objectivity in metaethics, moral psychology, medical/bioethics, and the ethics of technology. She has contributed to several scientific publications, workshops, and conferences in the domains of philosophy and ethics.
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Trijsje Franssen
Dr. Trijsje Franssen is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Exeter (UK). Her research focuses on the role of narratives, metaphors and (science) fiction in the debate on enhancement. She has published several papers on this subject.
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Francien Homan
Francien Homan studied philosophy at Utrecht University and earned her MA Metaphor in Discourse at the VU in Amsterdam, with a thesis about conceptual metaphor in art. Her primary research interest is the interaction between language, thought, and reality. She was the Chief Editor of De Filosoof, the faculty magazine of Philosophy and Religious Science at Utrecht University. Now she works as a freelance editor and writer, and plans to pursue a PhD on metaphor and cognition.
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Naomi Kloosterboer
Naomi is a PhD Candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2015 she visited the University of Birmingham to work with Lisa Bortolotti. This year she was Visiting Fellow of Philosophy at Harvard University. She works in the fields philosophy of mind, epistemology and philosophy of action, with a specific focus on self-knowledge and rational agency. She is involved in the debate organization happyChaos and leads Socratic conversations at the public event Denktrip in De Ceuvel.
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Willem van der Deijl
Willem van der Deijl studied philosophy and economics at University College Roosevelt in Middelburg and Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is currently working on a PhD project on the concept of wellbeing in the social sciences. He is co-editor of the Erasmus Journal of Philosophy and Economics.
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Linde van Schuppen
Linde van Schuppen studied Psychobiology and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and graduated in 2015 from the research master Philosophy of Mind at the Radboud University Nijmegen. Her research interests lie at the intersection between philosophy and the cognitive sciences, with a special interest in the philosophy of psychiatry.
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Jojanneke Vanderveen
Jojanneke Vanderveen is a PhD researcher in political philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research is on political legitimacy. Her ambition is to help make the world a better place. She hopes philosophy can be useful for this goal. To be on the safe side, she is also politically active for GroenLinks and labour union Alternatief Voor Vakbond.
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