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Adriaenssen, Dr Han Thomas

Han Thomas Adriaenssen
Han Thomas Adriaenssen

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.

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.

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Publications

2024

Adriaenssen, H. T. (Accepted/In press). Suárez on the Possibility of Causal Overdetermination. The Philosophical Quarterly.

2023

Adriaenssen, H. T. (2023). Suárez's Argument against Real Universals. Mind. Advance online publication. 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, 1-35. 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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