Religious Emotions ─ Some Philosophical Explorations

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.