Tim Heysse
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Short Bio |
Tim Heysse studied Classics and Philosophy at the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven. He earned his doctorate at the University of Leuven with a dissertation on the relation between theory of argumentation and ethics. From 1987 until 2007 he worked with the Department of Philosophy of the KU Brussel where he founded, with Wilfried Goossens, the Political Philosophy Research Group of the KU Brussel. From 1995 until 2004 he worked part time as a clerk minuting the sessions of the Flemish Regional Parliament. Since 2008 he has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Leuven where he teaches political philosophy, and a senior researcher with RIPPLE. Tim Heysse is a member of the Academic Council of UCSIA as well as a member of the board of the Stichting Lodewijk De Raet, a Flemish foundation dedicated to socio-cultural education promoting active citizenship. |
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Tim Heysse works on the interface between political philosophy, philosophy of language and epistemology. In addition to work on Habermas and other political philosophers, he has published on theory of argumentation and on deliberative democracy. His aim is to introduce into deliberative democracy themes not readily associated with the deliberative interpretation of democracy, such as the importance of power, truth, representation and the temporal nature of democratic societies. More recently, some of his work has been focusing on the question of how to combine a robust, non-relativistic understanding of truth and rationality with an acknowledgment of the historical nature of our life and society. |
Honorary doctorate Walter van Gerven
