• Warandelaan 2, Dante Building, room D 252

    5037 AB Tilburg

    Netherlands

1987 …2024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Research interests

Willem B. Drees is Professor emeritus of Philosophy of the Humanities and a former dean of the Tilburg School of Humanities. He currently  serves as the academic secretary of the humanities and social sciences of the Royal Holland Society of the Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). He is especially interested in the nature and task of the humanities in the contemporary university and in society. Before coming to Tilburg University, he held at Leiden University the chair in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics and was the editor of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science (2008-2018).

Inaugural address in Tilburg, January 30 2015:

Naked Ape or techno-sapiens? The Relevance of Human Humanities (Tilburg University; online http://www.drees.nl/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/150008_oratie_prof_Drees_web.pdf  )

Among his publications are the following:

Willem B. Drees, Waarom Deo et Patriae? Geloof én wetenschap in de eerste jaren van de Hollandsche Maatschappij (Haarlemse Voordrachten, LXXXIII. Haarlem, KHMW, 2024.)

Willem B. Drees, Denken over geloven. Van moderne zekerheid tot agnostische terughoudendheid (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)

Willem B. Drees, What Are the Humanities For? (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Willem B. Drees, Religion and Science in Context: A Guide to the Debates (Routledge, 2010)

Willem B. Drees, Religion, Science and Naturalism (Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Willem B. Drees and Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, eds., The Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe: Academic and Religious Freedom in the 21st Century (Leiden University Press, 2008)

Willem B. Drees, ed, Technology, Trust and Religion: Roles of Religions in Controversies on Ecology and Genetic Modification(Leiden University Press, 2009)

Willem B. Drees, ed., Is Nature Ever Evil? Religion, Science and Value (Routledge, 2003).

 

See also www.drees.nl

Keywords

  • Philosophy Of Religion
  • Philosophy
  • Religion And Culture
  • Humanities

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics where Willem B. Drees is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
  • 1 Similar Profiles