Prof.dr. Han van Ruler
J.A. (Han) van Ruler is Honorary Professor of Intellectual History of the Renaissance and the Baroque at the Faculty of Philosophy of Erasmus University. He teaches ancient as well as fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth-century Western philosophy.
His research is focussed on Cartesianism, early modern natural philosophy and the history of natural science, as well as on Renaissance moral philosophy, theology and church history.
Presently, Han van Ruler is preparing a monograph on Erasmus and the relevance of his work for early modern moral philosophy. Together with Erik-Jan Bos (Utrecht), he has just published vols. 1-3 of the Bibliotheek Descartes, the new Dutch edition of the complete works of René Descartes for Boom Publishers of Amsterdam. Together with Massimo Mugnai (Pisa) and Martin Wilson (Birmingham), he has prepared an annotated translation of Leibniz’ De arte combinatoria, which is due to be published with Brill.
From 2004 to 2009, Han van Ruler headed the NWO research project ‘From Erasmus to Spinoza – Classical and Christian Notions of the Self in Early Modern Dutch Philosophy, Theology and Letters’.
As of 1 January 2011, he is General Editor of Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History – the academic book series on Intellectual History founded by Arjo Vanderjagt (Groningen) in 1987.
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History is a peer-reviewed book series that publishes new approaches to history, the history of philosophy and theology, and the history of ideas. Special attention is given to the use of interdisciplinary methods and insights, such as those of cultural anthropology, semiotics and linguistic analysis. Occasionally volumes will contain papers of eminent scholars and proceedings of conferences, which would otherwise be difficult to obtain.
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