Dr Daniel De Haan
Daniel D. De Haan is the Frederick Copleston Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy and Theology in the Catholic Tradition at Campion Hall and Blackfriars. He is the principal investigator of the Conceptual Clarity Concerning Human Nature project sponsored by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and hosted by the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford.
Before to coming to Oxford, De Haan was a postdoctoral fellow on the neuroscience strand of the Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences project, in the Faculty of Divinity and the Translational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.
In 2015 De Haan received his doctorate in philosophy from the Center for Thomistic Studies, University of St Thomas, Houston, Texas and the De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
De Haan's research focuses on philosophical anthropology, especially on the ways moral psychology, phenomenology, neuroscience, and metaphysics inform our understanding of human persons. His research also engages the challenges neuroscience and evolution raise for hylomorphism, as well as questions in philosophy of religion, and medieval philosophy and theology, specifically in the work of Thomas Aquinas and Avicenna.
Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing, Investigating Medieval Philosophy series (Brill, 2020)
“Thomist Classical Theism: Divine Simplicity within Aquinas' Triplex Via Theology” Classical Theism New Essays on the Metaphysics of God J. Fuqua, R. C. Koons, eds., (Routledge, 2023), ch. 6.
“A Heuristic for Thomist Philosophical Anthropology: Integrating Commonsense, Experiential, Experimental, and Metaphysical Psychologies,” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly: Thomistic Psychology 96. 2 (2022): 163–213
“The power to perform experiments” in Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysics and the Theology of Nature, ed. William Simpson, Robert Koons, and James Orr (Routledge, 2021), ch. 7, 191-219
“Avicenna’s Healing and the Metaphysics of Truth” Journal of the History of Philosophy 56, 1 (2018): 17–44
“Beauty and Aesthetic Perception in Thomas Aquinas” in Beauty and the Good: Recovering the Classical Tradition From Plato to Duns Scotus, ed. Alice Ramos (CUA Press, 2020), ch. 13, 288–318.
Other publications can be found at https://oxford.academia.edu/DanielDDeHaan