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Drees, Willem B., What Are the Humanities For?
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Drees, Willem B., What Are the Humanities For? Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021
Creation: From Nothing Until Now
No full textPresenting a brief and accessible overview of contemporary scientific thought, Creation is an imaginative and poetic exploration of the origins of the universe. WIllem Drees assesses the religious and philosophical impact of scientific theories of evolution and the natural world, and examines the changing relationship between us and our planet.https://scholar.dominican.edu/cynthia-stokes-brown-books-big-history/1005/thumbnail.jp
Science, Religion, and Public Policy
Get PDFThis editorial is a joint one, by the incoming and outgoing editors of Zygon. The editorial transition announced in the June 2018 issue is now complete: the incoming editor (Arthur Petersen) took responsibility for the evaluation of new submissions in June, and the coordination of the entire editorial process (including planning for future issues and overseeing the production process) came into his hands in September. During the transition period, the outgoing editor (Willem Drees) gently handed over and advised on all aspects of editing the journal. In this editorial, Petersen first outlines a direction in which he plans to take the journal; subsequently, Drees introduces his final issue
The coherence and character of the humanities:A reply to critics
No full textIn this issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, Donald Drakeman, Peter Harrison, Douglas Ottati, Michael Ruse, and Lisa Stenmark reflect on Willem B. Drees, What Are the Humanities For? In my response to Harrison, I argue that the humanities do form a coherent domain, shaped by two fundamental orientations—the quest to understand fellow humans and self-involvement. In response to Ruse, I defend my definition of the humanities as neither too wide nor too narrow. With Ottati, I concur that institutional proximity of religious studies and theology is beneficial to both. Against Stenmark, who considers my approach typically Western, I challenge the distinction she makes. Her contribution confirms what Drakeman writes, that ambitions about “value-free” scholarship are controversial. His own contribution makes clear that this aspiration is necessary to serve the well-being of peoples around the world. These five responses to my book provide an opportunity to reflect on my proposal for envisaging the humanities
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Get PDFHow to think philosophically about religion? The separation of church and state takes form in the nineteenth century. In public universities in the Netherlands, systematic, church-related theology is replaced by philosophy of religion. As a window on academic thinking about faith, Willem B. Drees, Leiden University's last professor of philosophy of religion, reads the work of his predecessors. They were mostly modernists, who expected to find their footing in the use of reason, in historical knowledge about religions, or in personal faith. After World War I, faith is perceived more as a wager, to trust that life is meaningful. Later, we see agnostic reticence that is religiously motivated, because God is always greater than we think, a mystery. And scholarly reticence, because in academic terms nothing definitive can be said about God. Do we thus see a development from modern certitude to charged silence
CREATIVE CREATURES: VALUES AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN THEOLOGY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
No full textPreface and acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Ch. 1. Introduction: technological and moral creatures or creators / Willem B. Drees -- Pt. I. Technology's impact on our worldview -- Ch. 2. ICT and the character of finitude / René P.H. Munnik -- Ch. 3. Technology and the changing notion of nature / Zbigniew Liana -- Ch. 4. Co-creator or co-creator? The problem with artificial intelligence / Noreen Herzfeld -- Ch. 5. From thou to IT: information technology from the perspective of the language philosophy of Rosenzweig and Rosenstock-Huessy / Otto Kroesen -- Ch. 6. Being cyborgs: on creating humanity in a created world of technology / Taede Smedes -- Pt. II. Morality, nature and culture -- Ch. 7. The perennial debate about human goodness: the primate evidence / Frans B.M. de Waal -- Ch. 8. Theological reflections on the moral nature of nature / Nancey Murphy -- Ch. 9. Is it suitable to translate Christian anthropological topics into genetic and cognitive categories? The case of original sin / Lluís Oviedo -- Pt. III. Morality in a technological society -- Ch. 10. Ethical issues of AI and biotechnology / Margaret A. Boden -- Ch. 11. Co-creation or hubris? Responses to biotechnology in Christianity, Judaism and Islam / Ulf Görman -- Ch. 12. The human being a co-creator? Theological reflections on reproductive cloning of human individuals / Jan-Olav Henriksen -- Ch. 13. When astronomers and environmentalists clash over a sky island / Christopher J. Corbally, SJ -- Ch. 14. The crisis of ideologies and the need for a new anthropology: values education in a technological and pragmatic age / Angela Roothaan -- Inde
Review of W.B. Drees' "What are the humanities for?"
No full textWillem B. Drees’ book defends the humanities as a valuable endeavor in understanding human beings that is vibrant and essential for the academic and non-academic world ... The review highlights two issues, the book's naturalism (presenting the humanities as a human necessity) and the book's idealistic outlook (presenting the humanities as following the value-free ideal)
Review of W.B. Drees' "What are the humanities for?"
No full textWillem B. Drees’ book defends the humanities as a valuable endeavor in understanding human beings that is vibrant and essential for the academic and non-academic world ... The review highlights two issues, the book's naturalism (presenting the humanities as a human necessity) and the book's idealistic outlook (presenting the humanities as following the value-free ideal)
Naturalism and Religious Experience
No full textDrees examines a science-inspired naturalism that endorses a fully naturalistic view of reality, but does not exclude religious experience as a category of human experience. He considers some exceptional experiences that apparently conflict with natural events and experiences that coincide with affective responses, such as awe and wonder, proposing that the relevant exceptional experiences and affective experiences are explainable, at least in principle, within a naturalistic purview
A Century and a Half Philosophy of Religion at Leiden University
No full textIn the context of the separation of Church and State in the Netherlands a new arrangement for theology in public universities was introduced in 1876. Church-related systematic theology was replaced by philosophy of religion. In a recent book, Leiden’s last full professor for philosophy of religion, Willem B. Drees, draws on the work of his predecessors to document changes in the academic reflection on religion in the last century and a half. Papers from a symposium on this topic follow in this issue of NTT JTSR. The present contribution introduces the rise and fall of philosophy of religion at Leiden University.<br/
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