Supervision & Examination
Doctoral theses
As member of the Doctorate Committee:
- César Frederico dos Santos Numbers as Cognitive Tools. An empirically informed nominalistic account of the nature of numbers (Manuscript Committee & Doctoral Examination Board, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2021)
- Sanne Stuur Whose Time Is It? Physicists and Philosophers Debating ‘Time’ ca. 1900-1930 (Manuscript Committee & Doctoral Examination Board, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2019)
Research Master theses
As examiner:
- Lin Shan The Development of Sense Data and the Constitution Schema in Husserlian Phenomenology (third reader, University of Groningen, 2016)
- Dyane Til A Phenomenological Intervention in the ADHD debate (30 ECTS, with oral defense, second reader and examiner, Utrecht University, 2016)
- Diederik de Ceuster The Phenomenological Space of Timbre (Research Master Musicology, second reader, Utrecht University, 2016)
- Elisabeth Kraaijeveld Paul Celan, metaphor and reality. A phenomenological perspective on truth and correspondence in Celan (30 ECTS, with oral defense, third reader and examiner, Utrecht University, 2016)
Master theses
As main supervisor:
- Nina Vreugdenhil Phenomenology and Gestalt in research (18 EC, VU Amsterdam, 2022)
- Emma Poelman To look through their eyes. A phenomenological exploration of the doctor’s and patient’s world, with the final pursuit of working towards person-centered care (18 EC, VU Amsterdam, 2022)
- Federico dal Barco Towards a New Understanding of Pre-Critical Philosophy: A Continuist Approach to Kant’s Philosophical Development from 1755 to 1781. (20 EC, Radboud University, 2021)
- Currently PhD student in joint supervision with the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and LMU Munich.
- Juan Gabriel Osorio Gil The Concept of Manifold in the Early Philosophy of Edmund Husserl (24 EC, with oral defense, KULeuven, 2012)
- Subsequently instructor and lecturer at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and the Universidad de Antioquia.
Student research supervision
- Elisabeth Kraaijeveld The analogy between perception and eidetic cognition in Husserl’s Ideas (Philosophy Tutorial, 7.5 EC, Utrecht University, 2015)
- Hein Brookhuis Galilean Science and the problem of the life-world.
An examination of Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences
(History and Philosophy of Science Tutorial, 7.5 EC, Utrecht University, 2015)
- Currently PhD student at the KULeuven
- Luutzen Dijkstra Over de meervoudige betekenis van objectiviteit in de wetenschappen bij Husserl (On the Manifold Meaning of Objectivity in the Sciences in Husserl, literature module, 7.5 EC, Utrecht University, 2014)
BA Theses
As main supervisor:
- Emma Nyhof Ajdari ‘Define yourself in some new words’: a philosophical perspective on language acquisition and anxiety (12 EC, VU, 2022)
- Irene Vega Ramón Restoring the Emotional Essence: A Phenomenological Analysis (12 EC, VU, 2021)
- Nino Boon A Philosophical Comparison of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence and Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus (12 EC, VU, 2021)
- Rico Smit Het Probleem van Andere Geesten: Een Raamvertelling (12 EC, VU Amsterdam, 2020)
- Mathijs Derksen An ethical and political view on renewable energy consumption (10 EC, Groningen, 2018)
- André Giesing Jean-Paul Sartre: from Cartesian Freedom to Sartrean Freedom (10 EC, Groningen, 2018)
- Dirk van der Wulp Ontologisch naturalisme (7.5 EC, Utrecht 2013)
As examiner:
- Lette Roosmarijn Alsemgeest Het zelf en sociale media (second examiner, VU, 2021)
- Kevin Dekker Het Vervallen in de Sociale Media. Een Heideggeriaanse blik op Social Networking Sites (second examiner, VU, 2021)
- Eveline van Oirschot Nietzsches scheppende mens: eenheid van vrijheid en wil tot macht? Of hoe Zarathustra van de nood een deugd maakt (second examiner, VU, 2021)
- Gino Niamut Een fundament zonder eerste steen. Onderzoek naar de ontbrekende eerste propositie in Kants Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten (second examiner, VU, 2021)
- Lia Canisius-Theeuwen Nietzsche, Der Antichrist. Revolutionair of verlosser (second examiner, VU, 2020)
- Eduard Anaškin Communicative Action And Cross-Cultural Deliberation: In Search Of Emotions (10 EC, second examiner, Groningen 2018)
- Kim Ederveen A Communitarian Justification of Privacy (10 EC, second examiner, Groningen 2018)
- Marvik van Dijk Over de Mogelijkheid van een Subjectieve Ontologische Status van het Bewustzijn in Conjunctie met de Causale Geslotenheid van het Fysieke Domein (7.5 EC, second examiner, Utrecht, 2016)
- Laura Molenaar Logical Harmony. Making sense of logical connectives (7.5 EC, second examiner, Utrecht, 2015)
- Alex Groen Causaal contextualisme: Een zelfstandige semantische theorie of een vorm van epistemologisch contextualisme? (7.5 EC, second examiner, Utrecht 2014)
- Nils Donselaar Sorting out the Caesar Problem. Revisiting Frege’s Grundlagen der Arithmetik (15 EC, second examiner, Utrecht 2013)
- Daan Dronkers Change the Problem of Intrinsics – Reformulating the Problem of Temporary Intrinsics Without Distracting Semantics and Intrinsics (15 EC, external examiner, Utrecht 2013)
- Aafke de Vos Impossible Worlds (7.5 EC, external examiner, Utrecht 2012)