Short Bio

Born and raised in Breugel, a small town in the southern part of the Netherlands,  I moved to Amsterdam after high school to study philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. After my MA (major in Philosophy of Language, minor in Philosophy of Science) I worked for some time on a dissertation about the relation between Wittgenstein's views on logic and language and his views on the nature of religious belief.

In the same period, however, I was getting more and more interested in (Austrian) Economics, so I eventually abandoned the dissertation and switched to a graduate program "Philosophy and Economics" (see here & here) at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Because I am enjoying that program a great deal and because I am learning a lot, my plan is to go for a PhD in this field (although I would like to continue working on Wittgenstein-related themes as well)

I still live in Amsterdam but because my wonderful, beautiful and brilliant girlfriend lives in Toronto, Canada, I lived there for a while as well and try to be there as much as I can.

I do part-time translation work, have a part-time job as a receptionist in a hotel and up until November 2008 was the editor of the premier Dutch libertarian website MeerVrijheid.nl.