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Willem B. Drees: A Biographical Note, and BibliographyIn Anne Runehov & Michael Fuller (eds.), Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope: Essays in Honour of Willem B. Drees, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 231-252. 2024.This chapter offers a brief biography of Willem B. Drees, and a bibliography of his published work. This bibliography lists his work in Dutch, English and other languages, and is as complete as possible at the time of writing.
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16Science, Religion, the Humanities and Hope: Essays in Honour of Willem B. Drees (edited book)Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.This book collects a multidisciplinary range of contributions focusing on the prolific and seminal work of Willem Drees in the fields of philosophy of religion, philosophy of the humanities, and science and theology/religion. Trained in both theoretical physics and theology/philosophy of religion, Drees holds doctoral degrees in both theology and in philosophy and, amongst other distinguished positions, held professorships at the University of Leiden and at the University of Tilburg. Drees was a…Read more
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3Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (edited book)Springer. 2013."To all who love the God with a 1000 names and respect science” In the last quarter century, the academic field of Science and Theology (Religion) has attracted scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The question is, which disciplines are attracted and what do these disciplines have to contribute to the debate? In order to answer this question, the encyclopedia maps the (self)-identified disciplines and religious traditions that participate or might come to participate in the Science and R…Read more
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8This book offers a philosophical analysis of what it is to be a human being in all her aspects. It analyses what is meant by the self and the I and how this feeling of a self or an I is connected to the brain. It studies specific cases of brain disorders, based on the idea that in order to understand the common, one has to study the specific. The book shows how the self is thought of as a three-fold emergent self, comprising a relationship between an objective neural segment, a subjective neural…Read more
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11Issues in Science and Theology: Do Emotions Shape the World? (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2016.This volume examines emotions and emotional well-being from a rich variety of theological, philosophical and scientific and therapeutic perspectives. To experience emotion is a part of being human; but what are emotions? How can theology, philosophy and the natural sciences unpack the nature and content of emotions? This volume is based on contributions to the 15th European Conference on Science and Theology held in Assisi, Italy. It brings together contributions from scholars of various academi…Read more
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11Issues in Science and Theology: Are We Special?: Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2017.This book offers a penetrating analysis of issues raised by the perennial question, 'Are We Special?' It brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, from astronomy and palaeontology to philosophy and theology, to explore this question. Contributors cover a wide variety of issues, including what makes humans distinct from other animals, the possibilities of artificial life and artificial intelligence, the likelihood of life on other planets, and the role of religious behavior. A varie…Read more
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17Processes of Believing: The Acquisition, Maintenance, and Change in Creditions (edited book)Imprint: Springer. 2017.This volume answers the question: Why do we believe what we believe? It examines current research on the concept of beliefs, and the development in our understanding of the process of believing. It takes into account empirical findings in the field of neuroscience regarding the processes that underlie beliefs, and discusses the notion that beyond the interactive exploratory analysis of sensory information from the complex outside world, humans engage in an evaluative analysis by which they attri…Read more
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Why Evil won't go Away: A Philosophical Analysis of the Relationship between Religions, Ideologies and EvilInternational Journal for Philosophy of Religion. forthcoming.
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31The Epistemological Status of Transpersonal Psychology The Data-Base Argument RevisitedJournal of Consciousness Studies 17 (1-2): 1-2. 2010.The present paper argues that neither the autophenomenological nor the heterophenomenological approach works in order to do justice to the reality of experiences, because neither approach escapes phenomenological scepticism. By regarding the potentials of neuroscience and transpersonal psychology in addition to analysing the epistemology of experiencing, it is argued that an interdisciplinary-transpersonal psychological method is preferable that covers first- second- and third-person accounts. F…Read more
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Session IV: The Evolutive Mind: The uniqueness of human social ontologyPensamiento 67 (254): 709-721. 2011.
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277Session IV: The Evolutive Mind: The uniqueness of human social ontologyIn Javier Monserrat (ed.), Pensamiento, Cienca, Filosofía y religión, . pp. 709-721. 2011.Darwin’s theory of evolution argued that the human race evolved from the same original cell as all other animals. Biological principles such as randomness, adaption and natural selection led to the evolution of different species including the human species. Based on this evolutionary sameness, Donald R. Griffin (1915-2003) challenged the behaviourist claim that animal communication is characterized as merely groans of pain. This paper argues that (1) all animals are embedded in a social system. …Read more
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Do Emotions Shape the World? Biennial Yearbook of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology 2015-2016. "Studies in Science and Theology" Vol. 15 (edited book)Martin-Luther-Universität. 2015.
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23Understanding Moral Sentiments: Darwinian Perspectives?Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 2 (1): 114. 2015.
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218Chaos, Complexity, and God: Divine Action and Scientism, by Taede A. Smedes (review)Ars Disputandi 7. 2007.
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830Neuroscientific Explanations of Religious Experience are Not free from Cultural AspectsArs Disputandi 141-156. 2008.We cannot disregard that the neuroscientific research on religious phenomena such as religious experiences and rituals for example, has increased significantly the last years. Neuroscientists claim that neuroscience contributes considerably in the process of understanding religious experiences, because neuroscience is able to measure brain activity during religious experiences by way of brain‐imaging technologies. No doubt, those results of neuroscientific research on religious experiences are a…Read more
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95Religion and Science in Context: A Guide to the DebatesInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 25 (3). 2011.International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 25, Issue 3, Page 303-305, September 2011