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: