Prof.dr. Jos de Mul
Emeritus Professor Philosophical Anthropology and Its History
Erasmus School of Philosophy
Personal information
Born
Terneuzen, The Netherlands, January 2, 1956
Nationality
Dutch
Address
Visiting address
Postal address
Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Campus Woudestein. Bayle (J) Building H, room J5-45
Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062 PA Rotterdam. The NetherlandsPO 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Communication
Tel. (work)
+31(0)10-4088965
Tel. (home)
+31(0)24-3584657
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+31(0)6-14000250
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+31(0)10-4089030
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+31(0)84-7308158
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Education
1968 - 1975
Atheneum Beta, Petrus Hondius College, Terneuzen, The Netherlands
1975 - 1977
Law, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
1975 - 1981
Art History, University of Utrecht and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1975 - 1981
Philosophy, University of Utrecht and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1983 - 1988
Philosophy of Social Sciences, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Degrees
1978 - present
BA Philosophy, University Utrecht
1981 - present
MA Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Cum laude
1993 - present
PhD Philosophy, Radboud University, Cum laude
Present Academic Functions
2022-present
Emeritus Professor Philosophical Anthropology and its History. Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1993 - 2022
Professor Philosophical Anthropology and its History Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2000 - present
Guest professor Philosophy Master of Public Administration (MBA) program. Nederlandse School voor Openbaar Bestuur (Dutch School for Public Administration), The Hague
2006 - present
Guest professor Philosophy Master in Managing Information & Sustainable Change (MISC) VUCA Academy & Radboud University
2012 - 2013
Visiting fellow
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Previous Academic Functions
1977 - 1980
Student Assistant Philosophical Anthropology and Social Philosophy. Faculty of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
1983 - 1985
Lecturer Philosophy of Education. MO A en MO B Pedagogiek, Hoogveld Instituut, Nijmegen
1983 - 1988
Assistant professor. Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University,The Netherland
1988 - 1993
Associate professor. Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1997-2002
Scientific Director (together with Prof.dr. P.H.A. Frissen) of the Research Program Internet and Public Administration.
Commissioned and sponsored by the Ministries of Housing, Land-use Planning and the Environment (VROM),
Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK), Transport, Public Work and Water Management (V&W), and Finance (F)
2006
Guest Professor. Xinjiang Normal University. Ürümqi, People's Republic of China
2007 - 2008
Netherlands Visiting Professor. Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) / University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA
2008
Guest Professor. Department of History, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
2016
Guest professor. Institute of International Language and Culture Studies / Graduate School of Sociology. Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.
Local, national and international executive positions
1995 - 2000
Dean/chair, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1998 - 2003
Member executive committee of the International Association of Aesthetics
2004 - 2005
Member of the NWO committee Cultural Innovation and the Foundation of the Humanities
2004 - 2007
Secretary General of the International Association of Aesthetics (IAA)
2005 - 2011
Vice-President of the Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft
2007 - 2010
President of the International Association of Aesthetics (IAA)
2009 - 2015
Member of the Creative Board Executive Master in Information Management. University of Amsterdam
2010 - present
Member of the International Board of the International Research Center for Aesthetic and Art Theory (IRCA)
2017-Present
Member of the Board of the Stichting Praemium Erasmianum
Teaching experience
1977 -1979
Various seminars in Philosophical Anthropology and Social Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University.
1983 -1985
MO A and MO B lectures: Introduction in Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Ethics. Hoogveld Instituut, Nijmegen
1983 -1988
Lectures and seminars in the BA and MA programs Philosophy of Education, Introduction in Philosophy, Philosophy of Education and Ethics, Department of Social Sciences, Radboud University
1988 -present
Lectures and seminars BA and MA programs Philosophy. Various courses in Philosophical Anthropology, Aesthetics, History of 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Information and Communication Technology, Philosophy of the Humanities. Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam
1998 - present
Lectures and seminars in the International MA Program Philosophy Philosophical Anthropology, History of 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Information and Communication Technology, Philosophy of the Life Sciences
1993 - present
PhD Seminar Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
1995 - present
Guest lectures and contributions to seminars at almost all Dutch Universities and several foreign universities, such as the University of Beijing,Sichuan University Chengdu, Universiteit Gent, Universität Heidelberg, University of Helsinki, Universiteit Kortrijk, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Michigan, École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines Paris, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, Seoul National University, Fudan University Shanghai, National University Tokyo, Xinjiang Normal University Ürümqi, The University of Utah
1995 - present
Supervisor of 33 successfully completed PhD projects and 9 PhD running projects (NWO or otherwise funded). Follow for an overview this link
Research and curriculum assessment
2001
Chair of the Accreditation Team Philosophy, Estonian Higher Education Accreditation Centre Estonia.
2003
Chair of the Assessment Committee. Evaluation of Research in Philosophy and Theology, Estonian Higher Education Accreditation Centre Estonia.
2008
Member of the Research Assessment Committee. Institute for Science, Innovation & Society. Faculty of Science,
Radboud University, The Netherlands
2012
Chair of the Research Assessment Committee. Institute for Science, Innovation & Society.Faculty of Science,
Radboud University Nijmegen.
2013-2014
Chair of the Philosophy Degree Programmes Assessment Flanders. VLUH
Major National and International Research Grants and Contract Research
1997 - 2002
Internet and Public Administration. Commissioned and sponsored by the Ministries of Housing, Land-use Planning and the Environment (VROM), Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK); Transport, Public Work and Water Management (V&W) and Finance (F), Dutch Government
2000 – 2002
Under Construction. Identity in the Age of the Internet. Commissioned and sponsored by Infodrome, Ministry of Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OC&W), Dutch Government
2000 - 2004
Normative aspects of Information Processes in Public Administration. Grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (f 450.000); Co-applicant: Prof.dr. Jeroen van den Hoven (TUD)
2000
Calculemus@human. Human Sciences and Information Technology. Commissoned and sponsored by The Advisory Council of Science and Technology Policy (AWT)
2001
Social Inclusion vs. Digital Divide. Commissioned and sponsored of the Ministry of General Affairs,
Dutch Government
2002-2005
On-Line Identity, Interpersonal Relationships and Society.International Linkage Grant of the
Australian Research Council (ARC). In collaboration with Charles Sturt University.
2003
Grant from the Ernst Cassirer Publication Fund, USA
2004
Virtual Residence. Commissioned an sponsored by the Department Information and Communications Technologies of the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies European Commission, Sevilla, Spain
2005-2010
Playful Identities. From Narrative to Ludic Identity Formation. Grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).Three PhD projects and three research grants for senior researchers (€ 453.000). Co-applicants: Prof.dr. Valerie Frissen (EUR) and Prof.dr.Joost Raessens (UU)
2011-2016
What can the Humanities Contribute to our Practical-Self-Understanding? Grant of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Seven PhD projects and two Postdoc projects and two research grants for senior researchers (€ 1.996.361). Co-applicants: Prof.dr. M. Düwell (UU), Prof. dr. J. J. Bolhuis (UU), Prof. dr. W.B. Drees (LEI), Prof. dr. A.W.M. Mooij (UU), Prof. dr. I. Robeyns (EUR), Prof. dr. T. Verbeek (UU); Prof. dr. A. Visser (LEI)
Editorial Boards, editorships and editorial advice
1993 - present
Advisor of several Scientific Publishers: Boom (Amsterdam), Edinburgh University Press (Edingburg), lement (Kampen), State University of New York Press (Albany), MIT Press (Cambridge).
1996 - 2001
Member of the Advisory Board of the series Boom Esthetica (Amsterdam: Boom)
1998 - present
Member of the Advisory Board of L&B. Series of Art and Art Theory (Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi)
1999 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of Ethics and Information Technology (Dordrecht: Kluwer)
2002 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of the Heidegger-Jahrbuch (Freiburg: Karl Alber Verlag)
2004 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
2004 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of Arquitectonics. International Review. Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Barcelona.
2005 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of Jaarboek Kennissamenleving (Amsterdam: Aksant)
2007 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology (Leiden: Brill).
2008 - present
Member of the Editorial Board of Nordisk Estetisk Tidskrift / The Nordic Journal of Aesthetics
2008 - present
Member Referentenraad Filosofie en praktijk
2009 - present
Bruno Accarino, Jos de Mul and Hans-Peter Krüger (eds.), Internationales Jahrbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie / International Yearbook for Philosophical Anthropology.Publisher: De Gruyter Verlag Berlin.
Peer reviews
1993 - present
Regular peer reviews for various national and international journals such as Ethics and Information Technology (Kluwer), Heidegger Jahr-Buch (Karl Alber Verlag), Information, Communication and Society (Routledge), Tijdschrift voor Filosofie (Leuven), Journal of the Philosophy of History (Brill)
1995 - present
Regular reviews of research proposals for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), and the Fund for Scientific ResearchFlanders (VFO)
Publications
1981 - present
Author and/or (co-)editor more than thirty books and published more than two hundred and fifty articles in scientific journals and book contributions with (inter)national academic publishers in the domain of philosophical anthropology, the history of (modern) continental philosophy, philosophy of art, philosophy of information and communication technology and philosophy of the life sciences. He is regularly invited to write page-long essays in national newspapers, weekly’s and monthly’s, such as NRC , Volkskrant, Trouw, De Groene Amsterdammer and Vrij Nederland. His work has been translated in more than twelve languages.
See for a complete list of publications: www.demul.nl/en/publications-complete-list
A substantial part of these publications are available in full text versions on his website www.demul.nl.
Lectures and other public appearances
1981 - present
More than 450 invited lectures at national and international symposia, conferences and congresses, and public lectures. He is also a much sought-after speaker and radio guest.
Scientific awards and other indications of academic reputation
1993
Praemium Erasmianum Research Prize, for De tragedie van de eindigheid. Wilhelm Diltheys hermeneutiek van het leven , Kampen (Kok Agora) 1993 (PhD thesis, Universiteit van Nijmegen).
Queen Beatrix congratulates Jos de Mul on winning the Praemium Erasmianum Dissertation Prize (with son Joris and daugther Elize in the background). Royal Palace Amsterdam, 1993.
An updated version has been published under the title The Tragedy of Finitude. Dilthey's Hermeneutics of Life by Yale University Press, 2004.
2003
Socrates Prize for the best Dutch Philosophical Publication of 2002, for Cyberspace Odyssee, Kampen: Klement, 2002.
2004
In an enquête organized by Philosophy Magazine among all philosophy professors in The Netherlands and Flanders, De Mul was ranked in the top 3 of most innovative philosophers in Dutch speaking countries.
2008
According a Vrij Nederland enquête among intellectuals De Mul was regarded one of the twelve most sagacious intellectuals in The Netherlands.
Gerry & Jos
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