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Disclaimer This assignment was submitted as part of my Methods and Skills 2 seminar during my Research Master Programme at Radboud University Nijmegen. It has not been published by any official publishers, so here I publish it as a practice. What are you going to do with that? - Being a philosopher in IT ‘Ohh, and what are you going to do with a philosophy degree?’ - this question probably sounds familiar for a lot of us, being asked sometimes mockingly, sometimes condescendingly at family gatherings or while getting to know new people. ...

Is Game Theory a good model for explaining altruism? Disclaimer This assignment was submitted as part of my Philosophy of Mind and Language 1 seminar during my Research Master Programme at Radboud University Nijmegen, and received a final grade of 8.5/10. It has not been published by any official publishers, so here I publish it as a practice. Introduction In my essay, I am trying to answer the question of whether using Game Theory or specifically the Prisoner’s Dilemma is a tenable approach towards explaining altruistic behavior from an evolutionary perspective. ...

Review for a Radboud Reflects event This assignment was completed as part of my Methods and Skills 1 seminar during my Research Master Programme at Radboud University Nijmegen. You can watch the video of whole event here: My task was to write a short review about the event, you can find it here and below. Science of Relaxation On 9 December, two experts gave a lecture on “The Science of Relaxation”: Anne Speckens, a psychiatrist known of her research on mindfulness and mental processes playing a role in the development of depression and anxiety, and Martin Dresler, a neuroscientist known for his work on cognitive processes occurring during sleep and their role in different cognitive functions. ...