Joke Heylen
Biographic Data
| ID | 769203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joke Heylen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joke |
| FAMILY NAME | Heylen |
| SIGNATURE | HEYLEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2809-3320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Generics are not existentially quantified
According to the standard view, generics such as “ravens are black” express quite strong generalizations, even if they do allow for some exceptions. Nickel, however, defends a semantic theory for generics that radically departs from this standard view, claiming that they express existentially quantified generalizations. We argue against this existential view and in favor of a more standard view according to which generics express universally quan…
Existence hedges, neutral free logic and truth
Semantic externalism in the style of McDowell and Evans faces a puzzle formulated by Pryor: to explain that a sentence such as ‘Jack exists’ is only a posteriori knowable, despite being logically entailed by the seemingly logical truth ‘Jack is self-identical’, and hence being itself a logical truth and therefore a priori knowable. Free logics can dissolve the puzzle. Moreover, Pryor has argued that the existentially hedged ‘If Jack exists, then …
The dynamic approach to knowability
Anti-Realism and Modal-Epistemic Collapse
Attachment and Maladjustment
Latent growth curve modeling was used to investigate the longitudinal link between attachment, effortful control (EC), and maladaptive development during middle childhood. In a community sample, children (Time 1: n = 157; M age = 10.91) and their mothers were examined three times over a two-year period. Attachment was operationalized at a more strategic (self-reported trust in maternal support) and more automatic level (secure base script knowled…
Counterfactual Knowledge, Factivity, and the Overgeneration of Knowledge
The Enhanced Indispensability Argument, the circularity problem, and the interpretability strategy
The epistemic significance of numerals
Stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood and early adolescence
There is limited research examining stability and change in attachment security in middle childhood. The current study addresses this gap using data from a 3-year longitudinal study. Specifically, we examined stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood using a sample of 157 children (Wave 1 mean age [ M age ] = 10.91, standard deviation [ SD ] = 0.87) assessed at 1-year intervals across 4 waves. Secure base script…
Attachment and self-regulation performance in preadolescence
In preadolescence, research has shown links between the quality of children's attachment relationships and children's perceived self-regulatory abilities. However, less research has focused on the association between attachment and preadolescents' self-regulation performance. In a sample of 120 children, aged 9-13, we administered questionnaires to assess trust in maternal support and anxious and avoidant attachment. In addition, mothers reported…
Children's attentional breadth around their mother
Attentional processes in children are tuned toward their mother. It is unclear whether this is a cognitively controlled or more automatic, stimulus‐driven process. Therefore, 172 children (age 9–13) were assigned to either a cognitively controlled or a stimulus‐driven task measuring the breadth of their attentional field around their mother. Results demonstrated a narrower field around the mother for children completing the more stimulus‐driven t…
Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood
The current study investigated whether biological sensitivity to emotional information moderates the link between attachment anxiety/avoidance and depressive symptoms. Sixty children (9-12 years old) completed questionnaires on attachment and depressive symptoms. Skin conductance level (SCL) was measured across three conditions: an emotionally neutral baseline condition, a negative mood induction condition, and a positive mood induction condition…
Attachment and Effortful Control
Based on former research, it can be assumed that attachment relationships provide a context in which children develop both the effortful control (EC) capacity and the repertoire of responses to regulate distress. Both are important to understand children’s (mal)adjustment. While the latter assumption has been supported in several studies, less is known about links between attachment and EC. We administered questionnaires to measure anxious and av…
Modal-Epistemic Arithmetic and the problem of quantifying in
Strict Conditionals
Jonathan Lowe has argued that a particular variation on C.I. Lewis' notion of strict implication avoids the paradoxes of strict implication. We show that Lowe's notion of implication does not achieve this aim, and offer a general argument to demonstrate that no other variation on Lewis' notion of constantly strict implication describes the logical behaviour of natural‐language conditionals in a satisfactory way
Stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood and early adolescence
There is limited research examining stability and change in attachment security in middle childhood. The current study addresses this gap using data from a 3-year longitudinal study. Specifically, we examined stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood using a sample of 157 children (Wave 1 mean age [ M age ] = 10.91, standard deviation [ SD ] = 0.87) assessed at 1-year intervals across 4 waves. Secure base script…
Attachment and self-regulation performance in preadolescence
In preadolescence, research has shown links between the quality of children's attachment relationships and children's perceived self-regulatory abilities. However, less research has focused on the association between attachment and preadolescents' self-regulation performance. In a sample of 120 children, aged 9-13, we administered questionnaires to assess trust in maternal support and anxious and avoidant attachment. In addition, mothers reported…
Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood
The current study investigated whether biological sensitivity to emotional information moderates the link between attachment anxiety/avoidance and depressive symptoms. Sixty children (9-12 years old) completed questionnaires on attachment and depressive symptoms. Skin conductance level (SCL) was measured across three conditions: an emotionally neutral baseline condition, a negative mood induction condition, and a positive mood induction condition…
Attachment and Effortful Control
Based on former research, it can be assumed that attachment relationships provide a context in which children develop both the effortful control (EC) capacity and the repertoire of responses to regulate distress. Both are important to understand children’s (mal)adjustment. While the latter assumption has been supported in several studies, less is known about links between attachment and EC. We administered questionnaires to measure anxious and av…
Modal-Epistemic Arithmetic and the problem of quantifying in
Strict Conditionals
Jonathan Lowe has argued that a particular variation on C.I. Lewis' notion of strict implication avoids the paradoxes of strict implication. We show that Lowe's notion of implication does not achieve this aim, and offer a general argument to demonstrate that no other variation on Lewis' notion of constantly strict implication describes the logical behaviour of natural‐language conditionals in a satisfactory way
The Enhanced Indispensability Argument, the circularity problem, and the interpretability strategy
Strict Conditionals
Jonathan Lowe has argued that a particular variation on C.I. Lewis' notion of strict implication avoids the paradoxes of strict implication. We show that Lowe's notion of implication does not achieve this aim, and offer a general argument to demonstrate that no other variation on Lewis' notion of constantly strict implication describes the logical behaviour of natural‐language conditionals in a satisfactory way
Modal-Epistemic Arithmetic and the problem of quantifying in
Attachment and Effortful Control
Based on former research, it can be assumed that attachment relationships provide a context in which children develop both the effortful control (EC) capacity and the repertoire of responses to regulate distress. Both are important to understand children’s (mal)adjustment. While the latter assumption has been supported in several studies, less is known about links between attachment and EC. We administered questionnaires to measure anxious and av…
Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood
The current study investigated whether biological sensitivity to emotional information moderates the link between attachment anxiety/avoidance and depressive symptoms. Sixty children (9-12 years old) completed questionnaires on attachment and depressive symptoms. Skin conductance level (SCL) was measured across three conditions: an emotionally neutral baseline condition, a negative mood induction condition, and a positive mood induction condition…
Children's attentional breadth around their mother
Attentional processes in children are tuned toward their mother. It is unclear whether this is a cognitively controlled or more automatic, stimulus‐driven process. Therefore, 172 children (age 9–13) were assigned to either a cognitively controlled or a stimulus‐driven task measuring the breadth of their attentional field around their mother. Results demonstrated a narrower field around the mother for children completing the more stimulus‐driven t…
Stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood and early adolescence
There is limited research examining stability and change in attachment security in middle childhood. The current study addresses this gap using data from a 3-year longitudinal study. Specifically, we examined stability and change in secure base script knowledge during middle childhood using a sample of 157 children (Wave 1 mean age [ M age ] = 10.91, standard deviation [ SD ] = 0.87) assessed at 1-year intervals across 4 waves. Secure base script…
Attachment and self-regulation performance in preadolescence
In preadolescence, research has shown links between the quality of children's attachment relationships and children's perceived self-regulatory abilities. However, less research has focused on the association between attachment and preadolescents' self-regulation performance. In a sample of 120 children, aged 9-13, we administered questionnaires to assess trust in maternal support and anxious and avoidant attachment. In addition, mothers reported…
The Enhanced Indispensability Argument, the circularity problem, and the interpretability strategy
The epistemic significance of numerals
Counterfactual Knowledge, Factivity, and the Overgeneration of Knowledge
Anti-Realism and Modal-Epistemic Collapse
Attachment and Maladjustment
Latent growth curve modeling was used to investigate the longitudinal link between attachment, effortful control (EC), and maladaptive development during middle childhood. In a community sample, children (Time 1: n = 157; M age = 10.91) and their mothers were examined three times over a two-year period. Attachment was operationalized at a more strategic (self-reported trust in maternal support) and more automatic level (secure base script knowled…
Generics are not existentially quantified
According to the standard view, generics such as “ravens are black” express quite strong generalizations, even if they do allow for some exceptions. Nickel, however, defends a semantic theory for generics that radically departs from this standard view, claiming that they express existentially quantified generalizations. We argue against this existential view and in favor of a more standard view according to which generics express universally quan…
Existence hedges, neutral free logic and truth
Semantic externalism in the style of McDowell and Evans faces a puzzle formulated by Pryor: to explain that a sentence such as ‘Jack exists’ is only a posteriori knowable, despite being logically entailed by the seemingly logical truth ‘Jack is self-identical’, and hence being itself a logical truth and therefore a priori knowable. Free logics can dissolve the puzzle. Moreover, Pryor has argued that the existentially hedged ‘If Jack exists, then …
The dynamic approach to knowability
Computer Science (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works)