Research

Yi Chen is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Philosophy.

Het voorstel van D66 om een wetsartikel zo te veranderen dat een politieke partij kan worden verboden, is onverstandig, zegt rechtsfilosoof Bastiaan Rijpkema. Hij spreekt er uitgebreid over tijdens een interview met de Volkskrant. ‘Het is overduidelijk bedoeld om één specifieke partij aan te pakken:…

Ali Shobeiri is Assistant Professor of Photography and Visual Culture at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)

Tom Theuns is Associate Professor of Political Theory and European Politics and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Institute of Political Science.

Charlotte van der Voort is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests revolve around the interface between ancient and modern rhetoric, argumentation theory and philosophy (of language).

Karel Kuipers is currently a PhD-candidate in the 'Neanderthals and us' research project.

At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.

When you think of political philosophy, you think of Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel and Johann Fichte. Both philosophers are considered great representatives of German idealism. University lecturer in Continental Philosophy Marie Louise Krogh has received a Veni subsidy to delve deeper into the German idealists…

Frans de Haas is a Professor of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy

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I work across theoretical and disciplinary intersections drawing on 20th Century, Contemporary and Ancient Greek Philosophy. I believe in the need of contemporary philosophy to engage with the full spectrum of its history and open up beyond the confines of academia, reaching, motivating and inspiring…

Martijn Boven is a Lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

Susanna Lindberg is professor of Continental Philosophy at Leiden University. She teaches and conducts research in continental philosophy from German Idealism, Phenomenology and Poststructuralism until contemporary developments.

Ziyue Jin is a Phd researcher currently working at the Leiden Center for Continental Philosophy. Her research interest centers on the field of phenomenology, ethics and legal philosophy. She is currently working on her Phd research about the traumatic and affective experience of responsibility and justice.Before…

Jonasz Dekkers is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Philosophy.

I am interested in the decoloniality of Islamic studies, particularly in thinking through epistemic diversity in the study of Islam and Muslims in Europe. To that end, I am currently taking the Islamic idea of beauty (jamal) as starting point to reconceptualize Muslim subjectivity, studying how Muslims…

Aoife McInerney is a lecturer at the Institute for Philosophy.

Aldo Kempen's research operates at the intersection of metaphilosophy, aesthetics, and ontology, investigating how the formal dimensions of philosophical writing shape and constrain the claims philosophy can make about being, matter, and difference. His doctoral dissertation, Praxis at the Limits, developed…

Rebecca Nicastri's main interests lie in the intellectual history of Islamic philosophy and mystical traditions, with particular attention to the metaphysical doctrines elaborated within the classical and early modern periods of Islamic thought. She is particularly drawn to the intellectual developments…

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Peter Bisschop is Professor of Sanskrit and Ancient Cultures of South Asia at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. He is a Sanskritist and cultural historian of ancient India, with particular interest in the development of Hinduism and related traditions. His research is philological in…

Andrei Poama’s interdisciplinary research covers ethics in public policy, democratic theory, criminal justice, AI technologies in governance, and experimental legal philosophy, focusing on public value, punishment, and electoral ethics.

Fan Lin is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies.

Donovan Alexander Stewart is a lecturer at the Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy. His research focuses on 20th and 21st century philosophy, orientated by the themes of ecology, technology, and nihilism.