Dissertations
Current PhD projects
Sofie Avery: A just response to sexual harassment in academia
Advisors: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for Ethics), Sarah Van de Velde (Department of Sociology), Sigrid Sterckx (Ghent University)
- Ina Devos: ​Beyond the Genome: Ethical Aspects of Large-Cohort Studies
Advisors: Kristien Hens (Centre for Ethics) and Gökhan Ertaylan (VITO)
- Li Guanzhang: From Contexts Sensitivity to Individuals - A Murdochian Refection on Morality and Moral Principles.
Advisors: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for Ethics) and Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)
- Nele Buyst, Bio-Kin-Tsugi as a transdisciplinary instrument to bridge the gap between science and society
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for Ethics) and Leni Van Goidsenhoven (UvA)
- François-Lucien Vulliermet, Pollution and responsibility
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Varsha Paleri, The ethics of synthetic biology
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Daan Kenis: Precision medicine from the margins: a standpoint-epistemological exploration of a new paradigm in medicine.​
Advisors: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- David Schoute, Ethics in Enactivism: a Pragmatic Approach.
Advisors: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics) en Erik Myin (Centrum voor Wijsgerige Psychologie)
- Joke Struyf, Het feministisch potentieel van moederschap
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Lisanne Meinen, Experiencing Difference. What can we learn from video games regarding the experience of psychiatric diagnoses
Advisors: Leni Van Goidsenhoven (Centre for ethics) en Kristien Hens (Centrum voor Ethiek)
- Yanni Ratajczyk, Imagination and Moral Reasoning. Creative Imagination in Moral Option Generation.
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)​
- Emma Moormann, Collective Responsibility for Epigenetic Health
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Gert-Jan Van Aken, Ethics of early detection and intervention for autism: a disability ethics approach.
Advisor: Jean Steyaert (KULeuven), Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics)
- Amber De Kock, The problem of implicit bias and the limits of moral responsibility
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
Defended dissertations
- Yanni Ratajczyk,
Defended: January 12th 2024
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centrum voor ethiek)
- Emma Moormann,
Defended: May 22 2023
Advisor: Kristien Hens (Centrum voor ethiek)
- Gert-Jan Van Aken,
Defended: May 20 2023
Advisors: Jean Steyaert (KULeuven), Kristien Hens (Centrum voor ethiek
- Hannah Lingier,
Defended: May 26 2023
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Esther Kroeker (Centre for ethics)
- Lotte Spreeuwenberg,
Defended: March 10 2023
Advisor: Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Jo Bervoets,
Defended: 2 september 2022
Advisors: Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics), Jean Steyaert (KULeuven)
- Martha Claeys,
Defended: May 21 2021
Advisors: Guy Vanheeswijck (Centre for European Philosophy), Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Delphine Jacobs,
Defended: October 7 2019
Advisors: Kris Dierickx (KULeuven), Kristien Hens (Centre for ethics), Jean Steyaert (KULeuven)
- Henk van Gils,
Defended: April 2019
Advisors: Micha Werner (Universität Greifswald) en Katrien Schaubroeck (Centre for ethics)
- Jo Badisco,
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Bruno Peeters (Faculty of Law, Antwerp Tax Academy)
- Rob Compaijen, Practical Reasons and Existential Change. Kierkegaard, Williams, and the Internal Point of View.
Defended: May 13 2016
Advisors: Johan Taels (Centre for ethics), Paul Van Tongeren (KUNijmegen)
- Michiel Meijer,
Defended: June 9 2016
Advisors: Guy Vanheeswijck (Centrum voor Europese Filosofie), Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)
- Rudmer Bijlsma,
Defended: January 30 2015
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Piet Steenbakkers (Universiteit Utrecht)
- François Levrau,
Defended: December 2014
Advisors: Patrick Loobuyck (Centre for ethics/Centre Pieter Gillis) en Chris Timmerman
- Sven Braspenning,
Defended: December 17 2012
Advisors: Maurice Adams (Tilburg University), Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)
- Leni Francken, ​
Defended: September 18 2012
Advisor: Patrick Loobuyck (Centre for ethics/Centre Pieter Gillis)
- Katharina Paxman,
Defended: September 17 2010
Advisors: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics), Lorne Falkenstein (University of Western Ontario)
- Bram Goetschalckx, Legal Theory and Legal Praxis. An Essay in Hermeneutical Philosophy,
Defended: May 25 2010
Advisors: Maurice Adams (Faculty of Law), Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)
- Petra Van Brabandt, Social Morality in the second Enquiry. Hume’s Philosophy and Rhetoric. A Feminist Reading
Defended: September 1 2008
Advisor: Willem Lemmens (Centre for ethics)