René van Woudenberg
My Ph.D. students
I have had, and have, the privilege to be working with the following wonderful graduate students:
Sabine Roeser; promotion December 5, 2002; Moral Intuitions and Emotions. A study in moral epistemology. (Co-promotor Jonathan Dancy, University of Reading.) Sabine now is a tenured member of the Philosophy Department at TU Delft, working on an NWO Veni-project on emotions and technological risks.
Martijn Blaauw, promotion October 21, 2004; Contrastivism. Reconciling Sceptical Doubt and Ordanary Knowledge. (Co-promotor Jonathan Schaffer, Australian National University). Martijn has worked for three years at the universities of Aarhus (Denmark) and Aberdeen (Schotland) and currently works on an NWO Veni project on epistemic pluralism at VU University, Amsterdam.
Cornelis van Putten, promotion November 30, 2006. No Reflective Guarantees. Epistemological Scepticism and Luck in Light of Empirical Psychology. (Co-promotor Hilary Kornblith, University of Massachusetts, Amherst). After his promotion Cornelis took a position with the Dutch intelligence forces as an international crime fighter.
Adam Barkman, promotion June 2, 2009. The Philosophical Christianity of C.S. Lewis. (co-promotor; promotor Robert Sweetman.) Adam pursued his philosophy study at the ICS Toronto and now teaches at Yonsei University, South Korea.
Michel Heijdra, promotion October 1, 2009. Darwinian Explanations of the Origin of Language. (Co-promotor Piet van Reenen.) Michel worked for some time with McKinsey and is now at the General Thesauri of the Dutch Department of Finances.
Kiki Berk; Kiki works on problems that the phenomena of subjectivity pose for naturalism. An agreement between Notre Dame and the VU enabled her to stay an academic year at Notre Dame.
Rik Peels; Rik works on a project on responsible belief and the ethics thereof. (Co-promotor; promotor Herman Philipse)
Giedre Vasiliauskaite; Giedre is from Lithuania and works on a proposal as to how to reconcile Externalist and Internalist intuitions about knowledge. (co-promotor; promotor Jack Vromen, Erasmus University Rotterdam.)
Jessica van der Schalk; Jessica is highly interested in children’s philosophy and investigates various aspects of doing philosophy with children. Jessica won a VSB scholarship which enables her to visit Montclair State University (New Jersey, USA) where a lot of research on children’s philosophy is done. (co-promotor: Siebren Miedema, VU University.)
