Professor Tamar Sharon holding an image that shows a trainstation overlaid with ones and zeroes

Research Institute PTR

The Research Institute for Philosophy, Theology, and Religious Studies (PTR) combines three disciplines in a single Research Institute. These disciplines cover an interconnected range of fundamental questions related to convictions, beliefs and world- views past and present as well as to society, humanity, and our place in today’s world.

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Planet and Plot: Imagining Humanity in the Anthropocene

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Departing from a collection of novels dealing with climate change, this project investigates if and how literature can give a figure to being-human in the Anthropocene.

When Rome Lost the Golden Age

Research

This project aims to investigate the attempted transition into modernity, endeavoured by several literary and academic circles in Rome at the end of the seventeenth century by re-examining the academic culture and its institutions in the city.

Derek Strijbos appointed Professor of Philosophy in Mental Health Care

30 July 2024 News item

As of 1 July 2024, Derek Strijbos has been appointed Professor by special appointment of Philosophy in Mental Health Care at the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Radboud University. The chair is funded by the Dimence Groep.