Adriaenssen, Dr Han Thomas
Han Thomas Adriaenssen is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy. He specializes in the history of epistemology and cognitive psychology, more specifically the work of mediaeval and early modern philosophers including Thomas of Aquino and René Descartes. Adriaenssen wrote a book about the mediaeval roots of René Descartes’ ideas. He also gave lectures about the importance of studying lesser-known thinkers alongside the more famous philosophers.
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Lecturer of the Year 2012: Han Thomas Adriaenssen
Han Thomas Adriaenssen manages to explain seemingly difficult philosophical problems in clear and simple terms. He was elected Lecturer of the Year in the Faculty of Philosophy three times: in 2010, 2012 and 2013. In addition to his teaching activities at the University, Adriaenssen also gives philosophy workshops to secondary school pupils.
Adriaenssen graduated in Philosophy and Italian in Groningen and Siena (both cum laude (with distinction)), and spent time studying in Saint Petersburg. In 2008, he was awarded a Top Talent grant by NWO and obtained a PhD (again cum laude) in 2013 with a thesis about scepticism and representation.
Han Thomas Adriaenssen has been a member of the Young Academy Groningen since 2016. His responsibilities include academic policy and stimulating interdisciplinary research projects.
Previously in the news
- Are you responsible for your actions when you are drunk? (online lecture, in Dutch)
- Han Thomas Adriaenssen elected as new member of the Young Academy
- Wetenschappers handelen naar eer en geweten, en soms gaat er eens iets mis [Academics act in good faith but things sometimes go wrong] (in Dutch only)
- Keetje Hodshon Prize awarded to Han Thomas Adriaenssen
- Veni grant for Han Thomas Adriaenssen
2024
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2024). Sergeant Versus Le Grand on Forms and
Causal Power. In S. Bender, & D. Perler (Eds.),
Powers and Abilities in Early Modern Philosophy (pp.
83-104). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003305316-5
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2024). Suárez on the Possibility of Causal
Overdetermination. The Philosophical
Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae012
2023
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2024). Suárez's Argument against Real
Universals. Mind, 133(530),
323–345. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzad042
2022
Adriaenssen,
H. T., & Nauta, L. (2023). Robert
Boyle and Natural Kinds. Journal of the American
Philosophical Association, 9(3), 554-573. https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2022.17
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2022). Digby on Accidents. In L.
Georgescu, & H. T. Adriaenssen (Eds.), The Philosophy of
Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) (pp. 203-222). (International
Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales
d'histoire des idées ; Vol. 239). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99822-6_9
Adriaenssen,
H. T., & Georgescu, L. (2022).
Introduction: The Digbean Way, or Navigating Between the
‘Old’ and the ‘New’. In L.
Georgescu, & H. T. Adriaenssen (Eds.), The Philosophy of
Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) (pp. 1-34). (International Archives
of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des
idées ; Vol. 239). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99822-6_1
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2022). Pomponazzi on Identity and
Individuation. Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 60(1), 25-46. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2022.0001
2021
Adriaenssen,
H. T., de Jong, M., Reitz-Joosse, B., &
Sietsma, E. (2021, Sept 6). Een slimmer academisch
jaar. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen
(KNAW).
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2021). Locke on Individuation and
Identity. In J. Gordon-Roth, & S. Weinberg (Eds.),
The Lockean Mind (pp. 237-243). (Routledge Philosophical
Minds). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315099675-33
Adriaenssen,
H. T., & Alma, S. (2021). Thomas Hobbes and Thomas
White on Identity and Discontinuous Existence.
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly,
102(3), 429-454. https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12354
2020
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2021). Thomas White on Location and the
Ontological Status of Accidents. Oxford Studies in
Early Modern Philosophy, 10, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897442.003.0001
2019
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2019). Common Conceptions and the Metaphysics
of Material Substance: Domingo de Soto, Kenelm Digby and Johannes
de Raey. Journal of Early Modern
Studies, 8(1), 117-139.
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2019). John Sergeant and Antoine Le Grand on
the Occasional Cause of Cognition. In S. Bender, & D.
Perler (Eds.), Causation and Cognition in Early Modern
Philosophy (pp. 274-294). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315146539-14
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2019). Peter Auriol and Adam Wodeham on
Perception and Judgment. In B. Glenney, & J. F. Silva
(Eds.), The Senses and the History of Philosophy (pp.
149-162). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315184418-12
2018
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2018). Antoine le Grand on the identity over
time of the human body. British Journal for the
History of Philosophy, 26(6), 1084-1109 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2018.1437539
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2018). Review of Michael Jacovides, Locke's
image of the world. British Journal for the
History of Philosophy, 26(6), 1237-1238. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2017.1420629
2017
Adriaenssen,
H., & de Boer, S. (2019). Between
Atoms and Forms: Natural Philosophy and Metaphysics in Kenelm
Digby. Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 57(1), 57-80. https://doi.org/10.1353/hph.2019.0002
Adriaenssen,
H. (2017). Peter Auriol on the Intuitive Cognition of
Nonexistents: Revisiting the Charge of Skepticism in Walter Chatton
and Adam Wodeham. Oxford Studies in Medieval
Philosophy, 5, 151-180. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806035.003.0005
Adriaenssen,
H. (2017). Representation and Scepticism from
Aquinas to Descartes. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316855102
2015
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2015). Book review: Perception and the Internal
Senses. Peter of John Olivi on the Cognitive Functions of the
Sensitive Soul, by Juhana Toivanen.
Vivarium, 53(1), 126-128. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685349-12341286
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2015). The radical Cartesianism of Robert
Desgabets and the scholastic heritage. British
Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(1),
46-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2014.981742
Adriaenssen,
H. (2015). The Representation of Hercules: Ockham's
Critique of Species. Documenti e studi sulla
tradizione filosofica medievale, 26,
433-455.
2014
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2014). Anti-Skepticism in the Wake of
Descartes: The Case of Pierre-Sylvain Régis. In
Working Papers of the Québec Seminar in Early Modern
Philosophy (Vol. 1, pp. 94-114).
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2014). Peter John Olivi and Peter Auriol on
conceptual thought. Oxford Studies in Medieval
Philosophy, 2, 67-97. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718468.003.0004
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2014). Review: José Filipe Silva and Mikko
Yrjönsuuri (eds.), Active Perception in the History of
Philosophy: From Plato to Modern Philosophy. Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews. https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/active-perception-in-the-history-of-philosophy-from-plato-to-modern-philosophy/
2011
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2011). An Early Critic of Locke: The
Anti-Scepticism of Henry Lee. Locke
Studies, 11, 17-47.
Adriaenssen,
H. T. (2011). Peter John Olivi on perceptual
representation. Vivarium,
49(4), 324-352.
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