唐纳德·韦比的个人简介
唐纳德·韦比(Donald Wiebe),复旦大学社会科学高等研究院学术委员。
基本内容
韦比教授现任加拿大多伦多大学三一学院哲学教授。他的主要研究兴趣包括社会科学哲学、认识论、宗教哲学、宗教的学术科学研究史、宗教研究的方法和理论等方面。他的著作包括Religion and Truth: Towards an Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion(1981)、The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought(1991)、Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge(1994)、The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy(1999)。他还编著了许多书籍和会议文集,为彼得朗出版公司主编“多伦多宗教研究”系列图书。
1985年,韦比博士与卢瑟·马丁(Luther H. Martin)和E.托马斯·罗森(E. Thomas Lawson)共同创立了北美宗教研究学会,该学会于1990年成为国际宗教史协会(IAHR)的成员单位。韦比博士先后两次(1986-87, 1991-92)担任了学会主席。
Prof. Donald Wiebe currently works as professor of philosophy at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, Canada. His primary areas of research interest are philosophy of the social sciences, epistemology, philosophy of religion, the history of the academic and scientific study of religion, and method and theory in the study of religion.
He is the author of Religion and Truth: Towards an Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion (1981), The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (1991), Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge (1994), and The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy (1999). He has edited several books and sets of congress proceedings, and edits the series TORONTO STUDIES IN RELIGION for Peter Lang Press.
In 1985 Dr. Wiebe, with Luther H. Martin and E. Thomas Lawson, founded the North American Association for the Study of Religion which became affiliated to the IAHR in 1990; he twice served as President of that Association (1986-87, 1991-92).