1776 search results for “theory of mind” in the Public website
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Marco Streng
Science
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Stefan van der Lugt
Science
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Bart de Smit
Science
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Ronald van Luijk
Science
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Jan-Hendrik Evertse
Science
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Robin de Jong
Science
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Dividing Worlds
Dividing Worlds: Tsunamis, Seawalls, and Ontological Politics in Northeast Japan
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Superconductivity theory under attack
Measurements on a superconducting material show an abrupt transition between a normal metal and a 'strange' metal. The really strange thing, however, is that this abruptness disappears when the temperature falls. 'We don't have any theoretical machinery for this', says theoretical physicist Jan Zaanen,…
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Enumerative arithmetic
This thesis consists of three chapters. Each chapter is on a different subject. However, all three chapters address issues that arise in counting arithmetically interesting objects.
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Contextualisation of health goals
How are health goals related to other valued personal goals?
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Niels van Doesum
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jieya Chi
Faculty of Humanities
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POSTPONED | The bilingual mind: Code-switching/mixing, syntactic theory, and cognition
Lecture, SMART Cognitive Science Workshop
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Mind the gap(s)! A surface science approach to catalysis?
Surface Reaction Barriometry: Methane Dissociation on Flat and Stepped Transition-Metal Surfaces.
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Institute for Philosophy
The philosophers at the Institute for Philosophy develop new perspectives and insights not only on topical themes such as immigration and climate change, but also on more fundamental philosophical questions.
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Law and peace in the work of Hans Kelsen
Law and peace in the work of Hans Kelsen. A re-evaluation of Kelsen’s legal philosophy: legal pacifism as tacit meaning of his Pure Theory of Law
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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On the random-matrix theory of Majorana fermions in topological superconductors
PhD Defence
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Pregnancy changes brain structure
Brain researcher Elseline Hoekzema has discovered that the structure of the brain changes during pregnancy, particularly those areas related to social functions. These changes persist for at least two years after the mother gives birth. Publication in Nature Neuroscience on 19 December.
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Jelle van Buuren talks about conspiracy theories on Wetenschap.nu
Conspiracy theories are of all times, and the government should never dismiss them as a fantasy of fools. Certainly not now, when it turned out that authorities made a conspiracy themselves with a journalist threatened with murder. Which proves that the truth is always more insane than you could have…
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Book Workshop on Thomas Fossen's 'Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy'
Debate
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Career prospects
Create a world of opportunities with a master's degree from Leiden University.
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Richard Gill
Science
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Rob Tijdeman
Science
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Jeroen ten Voorde
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Megumi Kitagawa
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Carlos Roos Muñoz
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Stevenhagen
Science
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Joost Batenburg
Science
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Fields Medal for Leiden Professor of Number Theory Manjul Bhargava
Leiden Professor of Number Theory Manjul Bhargava has been awarded a Fields Medal, widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for Maths. Bhargava is a professor in Princeton, and since 2010 has also been the holder of the Stieltjes chair in Leiden.
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Bart de Smit appointed as professor Algebra and Number Theory
On Tuesday 15 September 2015, Bart de Smit has been appointed as professor of Algebra and Number Theory at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University.
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Solar Onus: Notes Toward a Theory of the Discourse of Sports
Lecture
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Behind the scenes on the Big Bang Theory
‘I got into Nature last year, I was nominated for a faculty teaching award and my kids don’t care. But if your simulations get on The Big Bang Theory then that’s something!’ says Huib van Langevelde.
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New theory on liquid crystals with high symmetry
LCD screens use liquid crystals which have a high degree of order, even though they form a fluid. A new theory maps out the interplay between order, temperature and symmetry. Publication in Physical Review X.
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Summer school on extremism gives insight into theory and practice
Every summer, Leiden University is the setting of dozens of summer schools in which professionals and students can receive extra training on a specific topic within a short space of time. We took a look at a summer programme on extremism. ‘A recruiter for al-Qaeda said that I could change the world.…
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Constructing monuments, perceiving monumentality and the economics of building
The goal of this book is to place architectural studies, in which people’s interactions with each other and material resources are key, at the crossing of both landscape studies and material culture studies, where it belongs.
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CFP MA Masterclass Feminist Theory with Lynne Huffer
CFP: Two-day PhD/ Research MA masterclass Feminist Theory with and around the work of Prof. dr. Lynne Huffer organised by the OZSW in cooperation with NOG
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Paula Harvey
Faculty of Humanities
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Modelling phonologization: Vowel reduction and epenthesis in Lunigiana dialects
This dissertation provides a formal description of the relationship between diatopic/diachronic micro-variation and phonologization through analysis of the phonetic/phonological properties of unstressed vowel reduction and vowel insertion in two Northern Italian dialects.
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Dialogues as a Dynamic Framework for Logic
This dissertation shows that dialogical logic constitutes a powerful and flexible general framework for the development and study of various logical formalisms and combinations thereof.
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G.F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic
The philosopher and psychologist G.F. Stout was the teacher of Moore and Russell around 1894. This book shows that Stout's ideas have played a role in Moore and Russell's development from their early idealism towards analytic realism, where Stout's ideas often find their origin in early phenomenolog…
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Extension of Operators on Pre-Riesz Spaces
This thesis mainly extends the theory of positive operators on Riesz spaces to a setting of pre-Riesz spaces.
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Modular forms of weight one over finite fields
Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven
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Prominent physicist Maldacena gives Ehrenfest Colloquium
On November 21, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena gives the Ehrenfest Colloquium. Maldacena is known worldwide as the inventor of AdS/CFT correspondence, which might be key to a theory of quantum gravity. Maldacena is winner of the prestigious Dirac Prize and the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental…
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Spinoza's Theory of Religion: The Importance of Religion in Spinoza's Thought and Its Implications for State and Society
PhD Defence
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Rule Reversal Revisited: Synchrony and diachrony of tone and prosodic structure in the Franconian dialect of Arzbach
This dissertation provides crucial but as yet missing empirical data on the tone accent opposition in the so-called "Rule B area" in Franconian and suggests synchronic and diachronic typological analyses of the phenomenon.
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Topological aspects of rational points on K3 surfaces
Promotor: P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk
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Rethinking Political Obligation. Moral Principles, Communal Ties, Citizenship
Why obey the state? Dorota Mokrosińska presents a fresh analysis of the most influential theories of political obligation and develops a novel approach to this foundational problem of political philosophy, an intriguing combination of the elements of natural duty and associative theories.
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Deformations of nodal surfaces
Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk