Dr Daniel De Haan
Frederick Copleston Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology, Lector
De Haan is the Frederick Copleston Senior Research Fellow & Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology in the Catholic Tradition at Blackfriars and Campion Hall, Oxford University.
He is also a Research Fellow in the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion within the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, where he is the PI for the Conceptual Clarity Concerning Human Nature Project that is generously funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. He was formerly a postdoctoral fellow on the Natural Theology Project at Oxford University directed by Professor Alister McGrath.
Prior to coming to Oxford, De Haan was a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge working on the neuroscience strand of the Templeton World Charity Foundation Fellowships in Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences Project, directed by Sarah Coakley. During this postdoctoral fellowship he conducted research on the intersections of theology, philosophy, and neuroscience in Lisa Saksida’s Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Psychology, Cambridge University.
In 2014 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled: “Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing: On the Function of the Fundamental Scientific First Principles of Metaphysics.” It was supervised by R.E. Houser (UST) and Andrea Robiglio (KUL). He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX and the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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