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Epistemology and its discontents: Working as a psychologist in troubled times
This monograph project outlines the discipline of psychology’s complex relationship with human rights, acknowledging instances of complicity in injustice alongside its potential for liberation.
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Entanglements of decolonial critiques: on positionality and epistemology in African studies
Recommended Citation Brachet, J. (2026). Entanglements of decolonial critiques: on positionality and epistemology in African studies. Critic...
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The Days Lived in Yellow
How do we come to know what we think we know?
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Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond
This book-length project is tentatively titled Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond.
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Reasoning in Physics: The Bayesian Approach
This project addresses the question of what constitutes good scientific reasoning.
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Index of (B)reachings (2000)
An artist is trained to be visually aware.
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Sounding Black Worlds
My project investigates black archives of Atlantic worlds as praxis and method, with a particular focus on sonic aspects.
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The manipulability theories of causality in the space of the multiple mental representations of time flow: how stable is causal relationship?
Human mind continuously produces explanations because an explained world is perceived as more understandable, more secure, open for forecasting and for planning of successful actions.
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Is the Reality Criterion Analytic?
Glick, David, and Boge, Florian J. 2019. Is the Reality Criterion Analytic? Erkenntnis. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00163-w
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Humanism, embodied knowledge, and postcolonial theory
Noyes, John. 2019. Humanism, embodied knowledge, and postcolonial theory. In M. Albrecht (Ed.), Postcolonialism Cross-Examined. Multidirecti...
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Complexity and transdisciplinarity – Discontinuity, levels of Reality and the Hidden Third
Paul Cilliers and Basarab Nicolescu. 2012. Complexity and transdisciplinarity – Discontinuity, levels of Reality and the Hidden Third. Futur...
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Why model?
Olaf Wolkenhauer. 2014. Why model? Froniers in Physiology, 5 (21), 1-14. doi:10.3389/fphys.2014.00021
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Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All?
Ian Hacking. 2014. Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? Cambridge University Press, 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-10-705017-4 | Hardback
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Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology
Breidenmoser, Tobias and Olaf Wolkenhauer. 2015. Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology. Pp. 249–64 in Explanation in Biol...
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Ontological Expansion
Tuomi, Ilkka. 2018. Ontological Expansion. In Handbook of Anticipation. pp. 1–35. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/1...
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Complexity beyond the real; the integration of the unknown and the unknowable into science
Complexity theory (Boulton et al, 2015) provides an important and potent challenge to the continuing dominance of worldviews informed by classical science.
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The Porcupine is a Monkey
The aim of the work I would undertake while at Stellenbosch would be to complete the argument of a new book, whose title is The Porcupine is a Monkey.
