reconnaissance | epistemology | anthropology | ontology | culture
Reconnaissancechances in the practice of ethics, increase in personal responsibility and conscience; crisis in authority; the crisis of rationalism; problems without precedent.
Richard Mouw
President and Professor in Christian Philosophy at Fuller Theological Seminary, California.
Biographical information
Richard Mouw joined the faculty of Fuller as professor of Christian philosophy in September 1985, after 17 years
as a professor at Calvin College. He served for four years as provost and senior vice president under David Hubbard,
then in 1993 was inaugurated as the fourth president of the Fuller Seminary. Mouw has served Fuller as teacher,
scholar, administrator, and public interpreter of evangelicalism. He has published eleven books during these years,
and authored articles, reviews, and essays appearing in more than 30 journals.
Among his books are:
Areas of Expertise, Research, Writing, and Teaching: Social Ethics, philosophy of culture.
Contact Information
e-mail: rjmouw@fuller.edu
Epistemological notions
Moral truth, authority, realism, relativism, emotion and foundation, validity of norms.
John Hare
Yale University.
Biographical information
John E. Hare's best known book, The Moral Gap, develops an account of the need for God's assistance in meeting the moral
demand of which God is the source. In God's Call he discusses the divine command theory of morality, analysing texts in
Duns Scotus, Kant and contemporary moral theory. In Why Bother Being Good? he gives a non-technical treatment of the questions, 'Can we be morally good?' and 'Why should we be morally good?'. He has also written a commentary on Plato's Euthyhphro in the Bryn Mawr series, and Ethics and International Affairs with Carey B. Joynt. His interests extend to ancient philosophy, medieval Franciscan philosophy, Kant, Kierkegaard, contemporary ethical theory, the theory of the atonement, medical ethics and international relations (he has worked in a teaching
hospital and for the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives) and aesthetics
(he is a published composer of church music).
Contact Information
e-mail: John.Hare@yale.edu
Anthropological notions
Moral person, forming, character, authenticity, naturalism of morality (socio-biology), gauging of anti-moralism,
virtue ethics.
Gerrit Glas
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden.Professor Gerrit Glas MD PhD teaches philosophy at the University of Leiden (NL), where he occupies a special chair in Reformational Philosophy.
He is also psychiatrist and director of a residency training program for psychiatry in Zwolse Poort (Zwolle, NL).
He has written and/or edited 10 books and wrote more than 100 professional articles and/or book chapters, among them:
In: S. Griffioen & B.M. Balk (Eds.), (Kok: Kampen, 1995).
(New York: Marcel Dekker, 2003).
(Argenteuil: Le Cercle Hermeneutique/Collection Phéno, 2003).
Main areas of interest are conceptual issues in the study of anxiety and anxiety disorders; the concept of the person and of personal identity; foundation of ethics and of professional identity, the nature of evil and reconciliation.
He is chairman of the Section for Psychiatry and Philosophy of the Dutch Association for Psychiatry and of the (Dutch) Foundation for Psychiatry and Religion.
Contact Information
e-mail: glasg@xs4all.nl
Ontological notions
Normative analysis of practices as opposed to classical prescriptive ethics, system ethics, narrativity.
Joan Lockwood O'Donovan
Oxford University, United Kingdom.
Contact Information
e-mail: jlodonovan@yahoo.co.uk
Social and cultural notions
Criticize and utilize the context of cultural ethos, globalization, juridification.
Young Ahn Kang
Young Ahn Kang (Korea South) studied theology, Dutch and philosophy at several institutions. He got his B.Phil & M.Phil. at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Ph.D. with dissertation on Kant at Vrije Universitetit of Amsterdam. He taught philosophy at the University of Leiden (1982/3), Keimyung University (1986-1990) and Calvin College (2003/4). Since 1990 he is professor in philosophy at Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. He is Chair of philosophy department and Director of the Institute of Philosophy at Sogang University. He is currently President of Korean Kant Society and President of Christian Ethics Movement of Korea. He is Elder of Korean Presbyterian Church. He published eight books, one in English, others in Korean: Schema and Symbol. A Study in Kant's Doctrine of Schematism (1985), Is the Subject Dead? Postmodern Tendency of Contemporary European Philosophy(1996), Between Nature and Freedom: Spinoza, Kant, Schelling (1998), From Where Comes Morality? Kant's Moral Philosophy (2000), Prof. Kang's Story of Philosophy: From Descartes to Kant (2001), Knowledge with a Human Face: Towards a Philosophy of the Humanities (2002). His book on Emmanuel Levinas will come out this autumn.
Contact Information
e-mail: yakang@mail.sogang.ac.kr
