Prof.dr. G. Glas (Gerrit) Faculty    Humanities E-mail    glasg@xs4all.nl Phone    071 527 2031     Date of birth August 31, 1954 Place of birth Bennekom Study Medicine/Philosophy Ph.D. May 14, 1991 Dissertation Concepten van angst en angststoornissen. Een psychiatrische en vakfilosofische studie [Concepts of anxiety and anxiety disorders. A psychiatric and philosophical study] Inaugural lecture June 26, 1993 Subject Christian philosophy in the reformed tradition

Keywords

Christian philosophy, anthropology, ethics, psychiatry, reformed tradition

My inspiration

This special chair, which was founded in 1948, stands in a long tradition of Christian philosophical thinking. My teachings build on the work of the Dutch philosophers H. Dooyeweerd and D. Vollenhoven, who - in the footsteps of the Neo-Calvinist thinker and statesman Abraham Kuyper - developed a philosophical position in which the radical and universal meaning of Christian religion are highlighted. The lectures, however, are not confined to the exposition of their views, but try to delineate their philosophical position in the broader Christian and humanist tradition and to contemporary developments in the philosophy of the special sciences. Dooyeweerd's refined conceptual apparatus is fruitful for the analysis of philosophical positions at the interface of science and religion. Its broad view of human culture, its fine sense of the interlacement between structural differentiation and existential dynamics, and its emphasis on common sense ('naïve experience') as the basis of all knowledge, offer a great inspiration. My own work is an illustration of some of these points in the area of philosophy of psychiatry, anxiety research, ethics, and philosophical anthropology.

Titles of major publications

• (2005) "Person, personality, self, and identity. A philosophically informed conceptual analysis", Journal of Personality Disorders (to be published).
• (2004) “Philosophical aspects of neurobiological research on anxiety and anxiety disorders”, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, Vol. 17, 457-464.
• (2003) “Anxiety - animal reactions and the embodiment of meaning”, Nature and Narrative. An Introduction to the New Philosophy of Psychiatry, K.W.M. Fulford, K. Morris, J. Sadler & G. Stanghellini (eds.), (International Perspectives on Philosophy and Psychiatry). Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 231-249.
• (2003) “A conceptual history of anxiety and depression”, Handbook on Anxiety and Depression, S, Kaspar, J.A. den Boer & A. Sitsen (eds.), 2nd ed.; revised and expanded, Marcel Dekker: New York/Basel/Hong Kong, 1-47.
• (2002) "Churchland, Kandel, and Dooyeweerd on the reducibility of mind states", Philosophia Reformata 67, 148-172.

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