Willem B. Drees
Full Professor, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Department of Philosophy
Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science
Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Philosophy of Humanity, Culture and Ethics
Phone+31134668405, +31134662773
EmailW.B.Drees@tilburguniversity.edu
Warandelaan 2, Dante Building, room D 252
Willem B. Drees is Professor of Philosophy of the Humanities and dean of the Tilburg School of Humanities. He is especially interested in the nature and task of the humanities in the contemporary university and in society. The interaction of the humanities with other academic disciplines and the impact of the humanities and sciences on human self-understanding and ideas about morality and meaning have his interest. 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, 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
Religion and Economics - elective for University College Tilburg, jointly with dr. J.O. Prüfer
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External positions
Member of the Editorial Advisory Board "Religion and Science as Critical Discourse" (Lexington Books)
3 Aug 2017 → …
Chair expert panel cult4, projects religious studies and theology (FWO, Research Foundation Flanders)
1 Jan 2015 → …
Ambassador (Nederlands Albert Schweitzer Fonds)
1 Nov 2014 → …
Member editorial (Uitgeverij Peeters)
Chair, oversight board (De Vrijzinnige Fondsen (cluster van vier Stichtingen))
Member governing board (Stichting Willem Drees-lezing)
Editor scientific journal (Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science)
1 Nov 2014 → 19 Dec 2018
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science Social Sciences
Religion Social Sciences
authenticity Social Sciences
cultural change Social Sciences
natural sciences Social Sciences
textbook Social Sciences
god Social Sciences
cognitive orientation Social Sciences
18 Editorial
8 Book/Film/Article review
3 Comment/Letter to the editor
2 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
2 Literature review
1 Inaugural speech
Naked Ape or Techno Sapiens? The Relevance of Human Humanities
Drees, W. B., 30 Jan 2015, Tilburg: Tilburg University. 35 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Inaugural speech › Other research output
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Science, Values and Loves: Theologies as Expressive Constructions
Drees, W. B., 19 Jun 2017, In : Theology and Science. 15, 3, p. 249-259 11 p.
Religious Naturalism
Religious naturalism and its near neighbors: some live options
Drees, W. B., 7 Feb 2018, The Routledge Handbook of Religious Naturalism. Crosby, D. A. & Stone, J. A. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 19-30 12 p.
Nearest Neighbor
Humans, Humanities, and Humanism in an Age of Science
Drees, W. B., Dec 2016, Humanism and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges. Pinn, A. B. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 15-30 16 p. (Studies in Humanism and Atheism).
God, Humanity and the Cosmos: Challenging a Challenging Textbook
Drees, W. B., Sep 2018, In : Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 53, 3, p. 887-896 10 p.
cognitive orientation
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