Biography
Wiep van Bunge is professor of the history of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Wiep van Bunge (1960) took his BA and MA at Utrecht University, was drafted into the army, and next was awarded his PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam, having submitted a thesis on the seventeenth-century amateur philosopher Johannes Bredenburg (1990). In 2000 he was appointed on the endowed chair of the Dutch Spinoza Society and two years later he was made a full professor. From 2004 to 2012 he served as dean of the Erasmus School of Philosophy. Among his books are From Stevin to Spinoza (2001), Spinoza Past and Present (2012), and From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution (2019). He also (co-)edited several titles, including Disguised and Overt Spinozism (1996), Balthasar Bekker’s Die bezauberte Welt (1997),The Early Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic (2003), The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers (2003), Pierre Bayle, le philosophe de Rotterdam (2008), and The Bloomsbury Companion to Spinoza (2014). In addition, he was a member of the team directed by Antony McKenna that edited Pierre Bayle’s Correspondance (1999-2017). He is an elected member of both the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW).
In 2011 he delivered a series of lectures on Spinoza at Delft University of Technology, available on CD (https://www.home-academy.nl/products/spinoza/), and he appeared in several documentaries, including Spinoza. Een vrije denker, directed by Robin Lutz (2015) (https://www.npostart.nl/spinoza-een-vrije-denker/14-10-2016/VPWON_12665…), Vraag 11597 by Inge Meijer (2015) (https://knaw.nl/nl/actueel/eureka/eurekafestival), and Pierre Bayle, l’apologie du doute by Julien LeLoup (2018) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNMza-ReJf8). With Tim de Mey he created a MOOC, entitled The Politics of Skepticism (2017) (https://www.coursera.org/learn/erasmus-philosophy-skepticism).
Areas of PhD Supervision
History of Philosophy
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Work
- W. Van Bunge (2024) - Adam - [link]
- W. Van Bunge (2024) - Bernard Nieuwentijt, Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen [The religious philosopher] (1718) - [link]
- W. Van Bunge (2024) - Henry More, Confutatio (1679) - [link]
- W. Van Bunge (2024) - Moses - [link]
- W. Van Bunge (2024) - Samuel Clarke, A demonstration of the being and attributes of God (1705) - [link]
- W. Van Bunge (2024) - Spinoza scholarship - [link]
- Wiep Van Bunge, Henri Krop, Piet Steenbakkers & Jeroen Van De Ven (2024) - The Bloomsbury handbook of Spinoza - [link]
- Wiep van Bunge (2023) - ‘Het onbekent en wonderlijk Eyland. Frans van Hoogstraten’s Translation (1677) of Utopia’ - [link]
- Wiep van Bunge (2023) - Kosmopolitisme: Verlichting en Romantiek
- Wiep van Bunge (2023) - ‘Berlijn, 8 november 1751: La Mettrie eet een pâté de faisan aux truffes’ - Twijfel, (24), 38-41
- Wiep van Bunge (2023) - Review of Mara van der Lugt, Dark Matters. Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2021 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 32 (2023), 561-564 - doi: 10.1080/09608788.2022.2137460
- Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Secularization in the Dutch Enlightenment: The Irrelevance of Philosophy - doi: 10.1163/9789004523371_006
- Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Review of: Francesco Quatrini, Adam Boreel (1602-1665): A Collegiant’s Attempt to Reform Christianity. - Church History and Religious Culture, 102, 153-154 - [link]
- Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Les libertins néerlandais du xviie siècle Les classicistes, les spinozistes, et les écrivains du voyage - Libertinism and Philosophy in the Classical Period (16th-18th Century), 19, 49-74 - [link]
- Wiep van Bunge (2021) - Becoming Spinoza: On the Failure of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus - doi: 10.1163/9789004470651_004
- Wiep van Bunge (2021) - ‘Voorwoord’ Maxime Rovere, Spinozaland: De ontdekking van de vrijheid – Amsterdam, 1677
- Wiep van Bunge (2020) - ‘“Qui toujours servent d’instruction.” Socinian Manuscripts in the Dutch Republic’ - [link]
- Wiep van Bunge (2020) - Review of: Saul Levi Morteira, Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam. Translated, with Introduction and Notes by Gregory D. Kaplan. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press 2017, Renaissance Quarterly 72 (2019), pp. 1523-1524. - Renaissance Quarterly, 72 - [link]
- Wiep Bunge (1 January 2016) - 'Spinoza'
- Wiep Bunge (22 November 2015) - Spinoza. Een vrije denker
- Wiep Bunge (22 November 2015) - Interview Spinoza. Een vrije denker
- Wiep Bunge (18 September 2015) - Interview Radio 5, Spinoza. Een vrije denker
- Wiep Bunge (12 September 2015) - Radio 1
- Wiep Bunge (15 April 2015) - BNR Radio
- Wiep Bunge (3 September 2014) - ‘Een nieuwe visie op Spinoza’
- Wiep Bunge (30 October 2012) - Pierre Bayle Monument Nieuw Crooswijk
- Wiep Bunge (1 January 1999) - No title
- Wiep Bunge & SJJM Thissen (30 July 1995) - Spinoza and the Dutch Republic
- Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Brill Publishers (Publisher) (Reviewer)
Activity: Publication Peer-review › Academic - Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Wiep van Bunge (2022) - ‘Zeker weten? Spinoza! (Ethica II)’, Humanistisch Verbond Leeuwarden, 13 maart 2022. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Popular - Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Interview en twee lezingen, Workshop The Early Dutch Reception of Spinoza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 10 maart 2022. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Wiep van Bunge (2022) - ‘Human Diversity in Early Modern Dutch Ethnography: Olfert Dapper (1636-1689)'. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Wiep van Bunge (2021) - ‘Becoming Spinoza’, seminar Discourses of Decline, UvA, 6 december 2021. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Wiep van Bunge (2021) - OZSW (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Wiep van Bunge (2021) - ‘Seventeenth-Century Dutch Libertines: Classicists, Spinozists, and Travelogues’, Conference: Libertines in the Dutch Republic, Maison de France, Oxford, 29 oktober (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Wiep van Bunge (2021) - Q and A, ‘Spinoza. Een vrije denker’, Pathé Den Haag, 7 oktober 2021. (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Popular - Wiep van Bunge (2021) - ‘Beyond the Canon. Perspectives and (Some) Problems’, Filosofie Olympiade, 5 februari 2021 (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Professional
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