[caption id="attachment_2373" align="alignnone" width="199"] 'Denken over geloven' (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).[/caption] In Denken over geloven: Van moderne zekerheid tot agnostische terughoudendheid behandelt W.B. Drees ontwikkelingen in geloof. Hij bekijkt daartoe de godsdienstfilosofie in de Universiteit Leiden sinds 1876.Vanwege de scheiding van kerk en staat verving in...
Willem B. Drees, What Are the Humanities For?, has now been released by Cambridge University Press. The book offers a reflection on the nature of the humanities. I understand these as the effort to understand others, as well as ourselves, through responsible scholarship. The book...
As I officially retire this month, without a valedictory lecture, I wrote in Dutch a compact recollection of my working life, from physics to the humanities, which I am not going to translate in full. I look back upon my professional life with gratitude, as...
Contingency in the Cosmos and the Contingency of the Cosmos: Two Theological Approaches by Willem B. Drees, Tilburg University published in Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 2 (2, 2015): 158-177; see https://www.mohr.de/en/journals/philosophy-theology-and-the-sciences-ptsc, doi 10.1628/219597715X14369486568374 Contingency in reality may be epistemic, due to incomplete knowledge or the intersection of...
The text of the inaugural address "Naked ape or techno sapiens" is online at http://www.drees.nl/humanities/naked-ape-techno-sapiens-relevance-human-humanities/, as well as an interview in Dutch (5 minutes) on the topic. The national newspaper NRC Handelsblad has an opinion article by Willem B. Drees on the same topic, 30...
[caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignright" width="300"] Onthulling gevelsteen voor L.J. van Holk. Judith Bosch (zwarte hoed, kleindochter van Van Holk), Wim LeRütte, Zwanet Drees-Roeters en Wim B. Drees[/caption] L.J. van Holk – een andere krachtige Leidse stem op 26 november 1940 Toespraak door Willem B. Drees bij de onthulling...