Research projects
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DANDY study
In this pharmacological study, we will examine the influence of two so-called neurotransmitters on the stress response, dopamine and noradrenaline.
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TRuSt study
In this study we want to investigate the efficiency of a smartphone-based cognitive reappraisal training in preventing stress-induced impairments in effective emotion regulation.
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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.
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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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FIBRE
Papyri unearthed in the sands of Egypt, fragmentary remains of bookrolls, provide a unique opportunity to study the ancient technology of the written medium. FIBRE studies the evidence from Roman Egypt using a novel, holistic approach.
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Characterisation of therapeutic anti-CXCR4 antibodies
In this project, therapeutic antibodies against CXCR4 are characterised, which have been selected from large scFv phage libraries and engineered into complete human(ised) antibodies in collaboration with ModiQuest BV.
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PhD research Naomi Reijn: Renumeration of the management board, especially in times of fundamental changes to a company, in the context of the Dutch stakeholder model
Naomi Reijn is working on a dissertation with the working title 'Renumeration of the management board, especially in times of fundamental changes to a company, in the context of the Dutch stakeholder model'.
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PhD research Lisa Markova: Anonymity and authenticity on online social media platforms
Lisa Markova is working on a dissertation with the working title 'Anonymity and authenticity on online social media platforms'.
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PhD research André Ettema: De privaatrechtelijke zorgplicht van de pensioenuitvoerder
André Ettema is working on a dissertation with the working title 'De privaatrechtelijke zorgplicht van de pensioenuitvoerder'.
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PhD research Daan van Ark: Causaliteit in het verzekeringsrecht
Daan van Ark is working on a dissertation with the working title 'Causaliteit in het verzekeringsrecht'.