prof.dr. (Wiep) L van Bunge

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

Erasmus School of Philosophy

Full professor | WP ESPhil
Email
vanbunge@esphil.eur.nl
Room
J5-61
Location
Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam

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Work

  • 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)
  • Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • Wiep van Bunge (2022) - ‘Zeker weten? Spinoza! (Ethica II)’, Humanistisch Verbond Leeuwarden, 13 maart 2022.
  • Wiep van Bunge (2022) - Interview en twee lezingen, Workshop The Early Dutch Reception of Spinoza, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 10 maart 2022.
  • Wiep van Bunge (2022) - ‘Human Diversity in Early Modern Dutch Ethnography: Olfert Dapper (1636-1689)'.
  • Wiep van Bunge (2021) - ‘Becoming Spinoza’, seminar Discourses of Decline, UvA, 6 december 2021.
  • Wiep van Bunge (2021) - OZSW
  • Wiep van Bunge (2021) - ‘Seventeenth-Century Dutch Libertines: Classicists, Spinozists, and Travelogues’, Conference: Libertines in the Dutch Republic, Maison de France, Oxford, 29 oktober
  • Wiep van Bunge (2021) - Q and A, ‘Spinoza. Een vrije denker’, Pathé Den Haag, 7 oktober 2021.
  • Wiep van Bunge (2021) - ‘Beyond the Canon. Perspectives and (Some) Problems’, Filosofie Olympiade, 5 februari 2021

Lid KNAW

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February 2026
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AMSTERDAM
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Jury- en commissiewerk.

KHMW

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February 2026
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HAARLEM
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Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Stichting

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February 2026
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UTRECHT
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Huygens Instituut (KNAW)

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February 2026
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AMSTERDAM
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Voorzitter Wetenschapscommissie

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2023
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2023
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2023
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