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Egbert Schuurman (born 23 July 1937) is a Dutch
engineer
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philosopher,
politician
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for the
Christian Union, and Emeritus Professor of
Philosophy in the
Netherlands
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Biography
Born in
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, Schuurman attended the Protestant primary school in Drenthe Nieuwbuinen, and the HBS-b in Stadskanaal, where he received his diploma on 18 June 1955. After studying
civil engineering
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at the HTS in Groningen, Schuurman continued his studies at
Delft University of Technology
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. After his graduation in 1964 Schuurman began to study philosophy at the
Vrije Universiteit
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in Amsterdam, a study which he completed in 1968. In 1972 Schuurman received his PhD with a thesis entitled ''Techniek en Toekomst - Confrontatie met wijsgerige beschouwingen'' ("Technology and Future - Confrontation with philosophical considerations") under supervision of
Hendrik Van Riessen.
From 1964 Schuurman had started his academic career at the Technical University of Delft, and in 1966 moved to the Vrije Universiteit. In 1972 he was also appointed Professor in the Reformed Philosophy at the Technical University of Eindhoven, which he remained until 2004. From 1975 to 2004 and he also held that post at the Technical University in Delft, and from 1984 to September 2007 at the University of Wageningen. The latter was in large part devoted to agriculture. Among his students in Amsterdam was
Sytse Strijbos, and in Delft he was succeeded by
Marc de Vries
M.J. (Marc) de Vries (born 1958, Haarlem), is professor of Reformational Philosophy at the Delft University of Technology.
Biography
Marc de Vries studied physics at the Free University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and graduated in 1982 o ...
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From 1983 to 2011 he was also a member of the
Senate, serving among others as the chairman of the Christian Union party caucus and Senate group leader (succeeded by
Roel Kuiper
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).
Schuurman was Visiting Professor on topics from the philosophy of technology in Canada, the United States, England, Korea, Japan, South Africa and Brazil. In 1994 was awarded an honorary doctorate in Technical Sciences at the University of North West (Potchefstroom), South Africa. In 1995 he was awarded the Templeton Award in Berkeley at the Center for Theology and Natural Sciences. In 2003 he was awarded officer in the
Order of Orange-Nassau
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Work
Schuurman's research interest is most concerned with exploring and developing
Reformational philosophy
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and its organised expression, the Association for Reformational Philosophy.
From 1983 to 1984 he was in the U.S. part of an international research team on Responsible Technology. He was from 1981 to 1983 member of the so-called DNA-Wide Committee, acting on behalf of the government studied the social and ethical aspects of work with genetic material. He was a member of the steering committee of The Royal Institute of Engineers on "Limits to technology".
Besides his thesis and future technology, he has published many other writings - see Bibliography. His latest book is: "Believe in Science and Technology". Several books Schuurman are translated into English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish and Portuguese. He was also editor of two international journals in the field of philosophy of technology.
Publications in English
* ''Reflections on the technological society'' (1978)
* ''Modern technology in a Christian-philosophical perspective'' (1979)
* ''Faith and Hope in Technology'' (2003)
* ''Deliverance from the Technical World Pictures'' (2004)
External links
Official Website*
Parlement.com biography
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1937 births
Living people
20th-century Dutch philosophers
21st-century Dutch philosophers
21st-century Dutch politicians
Calvinist and Reformed philosophers
Christian Union (Netherlands) politicians
Delft University of Technology alumni
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
Dutch Christian writers
Dutch civil engineers
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
Members of the Senate (Netherlands)
Netherlands Reformed Churches Christians from the Netherlands
Officers of the Order of Orange-Nassau
People from Borger-Odoorn
Philosophers of technology
Reformatory Political Federation politicians
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni
Academic staff of Wageningen University and Research