Keimpe Arnoldus Algra (born 5 April 1959) is a Dutch professor of

Ancient Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cov ...

and

Medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; nl, Universiteit Utrecht, formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2018, it had an enrollme ...

Career

Algra was born on 5 April 1959 in

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...

. He studied

classical language A classical language is any language with an independent literary tradition and a large and ancient body of written literature. Classical languages are typically dead languages, or show a high degree of diglossia, as the spoken varieties of the ...

s and literature at Utrecht University. In 1985 he became a university lecturer. Three years later he obtained his PhD with a dissertation on ''Concepts of space in classical and hellenistic greek philosophy''. Between 2000 and 2003 he was Academy professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) at Utrecht University. In 2001 he started as professor of Ancient and Medieval philosophy at the same university. In 2003 he gave the Alfred Edward Taylor lecture at the

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. In 2004 Algra became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He headed a KNAW committee which looked into the state of trust in Dutch science after a case in which

Diederik Stapel Diederik Alexander Stapel (born 19 October 1966) is a Dutch former professor of social psychology at Tilburg University. In 2011 Tilburg University suspended Stapel for fabricating and manipulating data for his research publications. This scie ...

had fabricated data, a report called ''Vertrouwen in wetenschap'' was published in May 2013.

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External links

Profile at Utrecht University
{{DEFAULTSORT:Algra, Keimpe 1959 births Living people Dutch historians of philosophy Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Utrecht University alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University