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15R. van Woudenberg & B. Cusveller , De kentheorie van Alvin Plantinga. Zoetermeer 1998: Uitgeverij Boekencentrum, 150 pag. (ISBN 90 239 1864 9 (review)Philosophia Reformata 65 (1): 117-118. 2000.
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40Medicine Is a Science and a Normative PracticePhilosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 19 (4): 285-289. 2012.I tend to agree with Hillel Braude’s thesis that alleviation of suffering is not an aim, at least not the primary aim, of medicine. However, this thesis needs to be refined and reformulated, because it at best expresses half the truth. The other half is that it is not justifiable for doctors to pay no attention to suffering. In other words, the thesis I would have liked Braude to defend is that it is true that doctors are no experts in existential issues and concerns and that it is equally true …Read more
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14Which moral consequences are implied in conceiving mental health care delivery as a market? It is argued that the market, as a term, does not function as a description of what actually occurs, but as a metaphor, albeit an effective one, which structures the behavior of managers and administrators. Three models of mental health care are described, including the moral principles, which prevail in each of them. In the Dutch situation there, in fact, appears to be a mix of these models. Competition …Read more
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30Psychotherapy is a professional activity because the therapist focuses his attention on a certain aspect of his patient’s problem and by this restriction attempts to achieve a deeper insight. A to-be-feared secularization of psychotherapy can be averted if the therapist continues to be aware of the abstract nature of theory, and realizes that one’s affective experience and religious life are intertwined. Dooyeweerd’s philosophical anthropology can be used to clarify this intertwinement. When tre…Read more
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80Is Dooyeweerd a panentheist? — Comments on friesen’s ‘95 theses on Herman Dooyeweerd’Philosophia Reformata 74 (2): 129. 2009.What is the purpose of Friesen’s 95 theses and what is the audience he has in mind? The title refers to a major church historical event and suggests that — like in 1517 — we are dealing with a concise statement of a new and radical doctrine that is unfolded in opposition to an established canon. But who is the opponent in this case? What is the established canon that is rejected? And what is new or radical in the summary? Dooyeweerd’s philosophy was definitely new and radical at the time of its …Read more
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61Christian philosophical anthropology. A reformation perspectivePhilosophia Reformata 75 (2): 141. 2010.
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1508The subjective dimension of anxiety: a neglected area in modern approaches to anxiety? (edited book)Marcel Dekker. 1997.
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16This is the last of three articles on the relationship between science, religion, and professional practice in psychology and psychiatry. The first article highlighted the importance of the distinction between four types of knowledge. In the second article the scope was broadened and amounted to an analysis of the normative structure of professional practices. I showed the relevance of this analysis by investigating its meaning for the notion of restoration, along the dimensions of structure and…Read more
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VU University AmsterdamDepartment of Philosophy
Amsterdam University Medical Centres (location VUmc)
Dimence Groep, hospital for mental healthcareProfessor (Part-time)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Areas of Specialization
Philosophical Traditions |
Value Theory |
Other Academic Areas |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Religion |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |