Author: Willem Lemmens

Willem Lemmens (°1963) is professor of Modern Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Antwerp. He received in 1997 his PhD at the Catholic University of Louvain with a dissertation on the moral philosophy of David Hume. His main research interests are : Hume and Early Modern Philosophy, contemporary moral psychology and theory of the emotions, and bio-ethics. He is member of the National Advisory Council for Bioethics, Belgium and member of the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor filosofie.Walter Van Herck (°1962) received his PhD in 1996 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven with a dissertation on Metaphors, relativism and religious belief. He is associate professor of philosophy of religion at the Univerity of Antwerp, Belgium.