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I have a bachelor in software engineering from Tehran with a thesis on philosophy of AI; and am now finishing my master's in HPS. My major areas of interest include philosophy of mind, philosophy of cognitive-neuroscience and philosophy of psychology, modal logic, and epistemology. I have recently discovered social neuroscience; which can bridge my long standing interest in social and political philosophy with philosophy of mind and neuroscience. My current research is concerned with the temporal measurement of intentions in neuroscientific experiments on intentionality and volition (a tradition dating from1965 till the present day, popularized after Libet's infamous work). My thesis is focused on the inadequacies of the tradition to account for long range intentions, and deliberative intention formation . I argue that currently the experiments merely cover intentions-in-action and special non-deliberative cases of prior intentions, and suffer from insufficient analysis of the structure of intentionality. In my spare time I enjoy a wide variety of unbearable books, movies, and music, photography, written and illustrated daydreaming on paper, and being an art-tourist. My favourite sports include read-walking, speed talking, running when I'm late, swimming in natural cold water (record: 8C), and skiing.
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Hi! I'm Kees-Jan and I'm in the 2nd year of the HPS master, after receiving
my Bachelor's in Physics at UU last year. My main focus is on the
relationship between science and christianity, both in history (especially
19th and 20th century) as well as today. Being a christian myself I'm
especially interested in the current debate on creation vs evolution vs
Intelligent Design and its implications on society. I'm also highly
interested in the fundamental changes both Quantum Mechanics and Einstein's
Theory of General Relativity brought to contemporary physics and philosophy.
Recently I've been doing in a totally different area: the relation between
the theology and natural philosophy of Isaac Newton.
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I am in my last year and soon will be finishing my master's thesis on Dutch scientific expeditions to the Netherlands Indies around 1900 (and especially the two expeditions of Max Weber, the Amsterdam zoologist, not the German sociologist). I am studying the sciences in the period 1880-1940 in a broad social-economic, cultural, and (international-)political perspective and more specific in the context of the high age of imperialism and nationalism. The sciences I will focus on are especially anthropology, zoology, geology and oceanography (well, all the expeditionary sciences). One of my interests is in the 'geography/ies of knowledge' and all the themes that go with it, like 'boundaries', 'borders', 'spaces'. Combined with the themes of nationalism and imperialism/internationalism, I would like to use concepts derived from the history and anthropology of nationalism to describe the rise of (imagined) communities in the world of scientists around the fin-de-si�cle. Put it plainly: I want to show that the rise and fall of expeditionary sciences can only be understood against the background of the political and cultural developments of the 1900s. Subject to be treated in a multi-layered study of boundaries in expeditionary science: Wallace's Line in a 'Dutch' archipelago.
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Janneke van Lith,
23-06-2011 11:51
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