Een prachtige bloemlezing van literaire en journalistieke verhalen en liedjes over het wel en wee van Nederlanders Met Vakantie. Stap in de bus met Godried Bomans naar Oostenrijk en reis vervolgens verder met Nelleke Noordervliet in de trein. Zie het 'Stille strand' van Scheveningen in 1961 door de ogen van Willem Drees en dat van Zandvoort door de ogen van de Zandvoortse politie. En: hoe klonk Jan Pelleboer ook al weer? Zing mee met Rita Reys, Conny Vandenbos, Wim Sonneveld en Willy Alber...

What are the humanities for? The question has perhaps never seemed more urgent. While student numbers have grown in higher education, universities and colleges increasingly have encouraged students to opt for courses in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) or take programs in applied subjects like business and management. When tertiary learning has taken such a notably utilitarian turn, the humanities are judged to have lost their centrality. Willem B. Drees has no wish ...

This book collects a multidisciplinary range of contributions focusing on the prolific and seminal work of Willem Drees in the fields of philosophy of religion, philosophy of the humanities, and science and theology/religion. Trained in both theoretical physics and theology/philosophy of religion, Drees holds doctoral degrees in both theology and in philosophy and, amongst other distinguished positions, held professorships at the University of Leiden and at the University of Tilburg. Drees...

Where do we come from? Where are we going? These are fundamental questions, which the human race has asked itself for centuries.Presenting 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.

How should we think about religion, science, and their relationship in modern society? Some religious groups oppose evolution; some atheists claim science is on their side. Others reconcile their beliefs with science, or consider science and faith to deal with fundamentally different aspects of human life. What indeed is religion: belief or trust in God’s existence? How do we distinguish sense from superstition? What does science have to say on such issues?Willem B. Drees considers...

Can nature be evil, or ugly, or wrong? Can we apply moral value to nature?From a compellingly original premise, under the auspices of major thinkers including Mary Midgley, Philip Hefner, Arnold Benz and Keith Ward, Is Nature Ever Evil? examines the value-structure of our cosmos and of the science that seeks to describe it. Science, says editor Willem B. Drees**,** claims to leave moral questions to aesthetic and religious theory. But the supposed neutrality of the scientif...