Rik Peels
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rik Peels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rik |
| FAMILY NAME | Peels |
| SIGNATURE | PEELS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | VU University Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conceptualizing Extreme Beliefs and Behaviors
This book explores challenging conceptual issues in defining, analyzing, conceptualizing, and operationalizing notions such as extremism, radicalization, fanaticism, and terrorism. The focus is theoretical, but the work is empirically embedded. Rather than adding yet further definitions of phenomena like extremism, it seeks to make progress by addressing underlying conceptual issues. Specifically, it explores four crucial questions about extremis…
What Is It to Explain Extremism
This article explores what it is to explain extremism.Rather than providing yet another explanation of extremism, it takes a bird's eye point of view at existing explanations of extremism.What is it that scholars are doing in seeking explanations of extremism?This article answers this question by considering four issues.First, exactly what is the explanandum for explanations of extremism, what is it that we seek to explain?Second, what is it to e…
Monotheism and Fundamentalism
This Element explores the relation between monotheism and fundamentalism. It does so from both an empirical perspective and a more theoretical one that combines theological and philosophical insights. The empirical part addresses how as a matter of fact, particularly quantitively, monotheism and fundamentalism relate to one another. The more theoretical part studies the relation between the two by considering the doctrine of God and the issue of …
Responsibility for Fundamentalist Belief
The aim of this chapter is to answer the question of how people can be responsible for holding fundamentalist beliefs, say, about the social position of minorities such as women, homosexuals, and people of other faiths or ideologies. It sets out by exploring what fundamentalist beliefs are. After providing a family resemblance account of fundamentalist beliefs, the chapter moves on to scrutinize how people can be responsible for such beliefs. Of …
The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy
Common-sense philosophy is important because it maintains that we can know many things about the world, about ourselves, about morality, and even about things of a metaphysical nature. The tenets of common-sense philosophy, while in some sense obvious and unsurprising, give rise to powerful arguments that can shed light on fundamental philosophical issues, including the perennial problem of scepticism and the emerging challenge of scientism. This…
Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy
Scientism
Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Adherents of scientism tend to answer both questions with yes. Scientism is increasingly influential in popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general, but philosophers have hitherto largely ignored it. This collection is one of the first to develop and assess scientism as a serious philosophical position. It feature…
Scientism
Samuel M. Powell. The Impassioned Life
Samuel M. Powell. The Impassioned Life: Reason and Emotion in the Christian Tradition
Ten reasons to embrace scientism
The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance
Ignorance is a neglected issue in philosophy. This is surprising for, contrary to what one might expect, it is not clear what ignorance is. Some philosophers say or assume that it is a lack of knowledge, whereas others claim or presuppose that it is an absence of true belief. What is one ignorant of when one is ignorant? What kinds of ignorance are there? This neglect is also remarkable because ignorance plays a crucial role in all sorts of contr…
Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy
Are naturalism and moral realism incompatible
In a recent paper, Alvin Plantinga has argued that there is good reason to think that naturalism and moral realism are incompatible. He has done so by arguing that the most important argument for the compatibility of these two theses, which has been provided by Frank Jackson, fails and that any other argument that serves the same purpose is likely to fail for the same reason. His argument against the compatibility of naturalism and moral realism,…
Hume’s Law Violated
Against Doxastic Compatibilism
William Alston has argued that the so‐called deontological conception of epistemic justification, on which epistemic justification is to be spelled out in terms of blame, responsibility, and obligations, is untenable. The basic idea of the argument is that this conception is untenable because we lack voluntary control over our beliefs and, therefore, cannot have any obligations to hold certain beliefs. If this is convincing, however, the argument…
Against Doxastic Compatibilism
William Alston has argued that the so‐called deontological conception of epistemic justification, on which epistemic justification is to be spelled out in terms of blame, responsibility, and obligations, is untenable. The basic idea of the argument is that this conception is untenable because we lack voluntary control over our beliefs and, therefore, cannot have any obligations to hold certain beliefs. If this is convincing, however, the argument…
What Is It to Explain Extremism
This article explores what it is to explain extremism.Rather than providing yet another explanation of extremism, it takes a bird's eye point of view at existing explanations of extremism.What is it that scholars are doing in seeking explanations of extremism?This article answers this question by considering four issues.First, exactly what is the explanandum for explanations of extremism, what is it that we seek to explain?Second, what is it to e…
Ten reasons to embrace scientism
Against Doxastic Compatibilism
William Alston has argued that the so‐called deontological conception of epistemic justification, on which epistemic justification is to be spelled out in terms of blame, responsibility, and obligations, is untenable. The basic idea of the argument is that this conception is untenable because we lack voluntary control over our beliefs and, therefore, cannot have any obligations to hold certain beliefs. If this is convincing, however, the argument…
Are naturalism and moral realism incompatible
In a recent paper, Alvin Plantinga has argued that there is good reason to think that naturalism and moral realism are incompatible. He has done so by arguing that the most important argument for the compatibility of these two theses, which has been provided by Frank Jackson, fails and that any other argument that serves the same purpose is likely to fail for the same reason. His argument against the compatibility of naturalism and moral realism,…
Hume’s Law Violated
The Epistemic Dimensions of Ignorance
Ignorance is a neglected issue in philosophy. This is surprising for, contrary to what one might expect, it is not clear what ignorance is. Some philosophers say or assume that it is a lack of knowledge, whereas others claim or presuppose that it is an absence of true belief. What is one ignorant of when one is ignorant? What kinds of ignorance are there? This neglect is also remarkable because ignorance plays a crucial role in all sorts of contr…
Perspectives on Ignorance from Moral and Social Philosophy
Samuel M. Powell. The Impassioned Life
Samuel M. Powell. The Impassioned Life: Reason and Emotion in the Christian Tradition
Ten reasons to embrace scientism
Scientism
Can only science deliver genuine knowledge about the world and ourselves? Is science our only guide to what exists? Adherents of scientism tend to answer both questions with yes. Scientism is increasingly influential in popular scientific literature and intellectual life in general, but philosophers have hitherto largely ignored it. This collection is one of the first to develop and assess scientism as a serious philosophical position. It feature…
Scientism
Responsibility for Fundamentalist Belief
The aim of this chapter is to answer the question of how people can be responsible for holding fundamentalist beliefs, say, about the social position of minorities such as women, homosexuals, and people of other faiths or ideologies. It sets out by exploring what fundamentalist beliefs are. After providing a family resemblance account of fundamentalist beliefs, the chapter moves on to scrutinize how people can be responsible for such beliefs. Of …
The Cambridge Companion to Common-Sense Philosophy
Common-sense philosophy is important because it maintains that we can know many things about the world, about ourselves, about morality, and even about things of a metaphysical nature. The tenets of common-sense philosophy, while in some sense obvious and unsurprising, give rise to powerful arguments that can shed light on fundamental philosophical issues, including the perennial problem of scepticism and the emerging challenge of scientism. This…
Scientific Challenges to Common Sense Philosophy
Monotheism and Fundamentalism
This Element explores the relation between monotheism and fundamentalism. It does so from both an empirical perspective and a more theoretical one that combines theological and philosophical insights. The empirical part addresses how as a matter of fact, particularly quantitively, monotheism and fundamentalism relate to one another. The more theoretical part studies the relation between the two by considering the doctrine of God and the issue of …
Conceptualizing Extreme Beliefs and Behaviors
This book explores challenging conceptual issues in defining, analyzing, conceptualizing, and operationalizing notions such as extremism, radicalization, fanaticism, and terrorism. The focus is theoretical, but the work is empirically embedded. Rather than adding yet further definitions of phenomena like extremism, it seeks to make progress by addressing underlying conceptual issues. Specifically, it explores four crucial questions about extremis…
What Is It to Explain Extremism
This article explores what it is to explain extremism.Rather than providing yet another explanation of extremism, it takes a bird's eye point of view at existing explanations of extremism.What is it that scholars are doing in seeking explanations of extremism?This article answers this question by considering four issues.First, exactly what is the explanandum for explanations of extremism, what is it that we seek to explain?Second, what is it to e…
Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Fundamentalism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works)