The Board

The board of the Society for Philosophy has consisted of the following persons since April 2025:

Ronald Tinnevelt (RU, president)

Lukas van den Berge (UU, secretary)

Tamar de Waal (UvA)

Eric Boot (UvA, webmaster)

Renetta Bos (UU)

Litska Strikwerda (OU)

Thomas Riesthuis (UU, treasurer)

Maarten Stremler (UM)

Ronald Tinnevelt – President

Ronald Tinnevelt is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law of Radboud University Nijmegen. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal ‘Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte’. He conducts research on the resilience of the rule of law, political parties and the idea of global justice. He is currently preparing a volume entitled “European Ways of Life” (Edgar Elgar 2023) with L. Corrias (VU). Recently he edited with R. Schlössels and J. Sillen the book ‘Naar een weerbare rechststaat’ (Kluwer, 2022) and with Frank van den Heuvel the volume ‘Polarisatie en Perspectief’ (Eburon, 2022).

Publications

Lukas van den Berge – Secretary

Bio to follow shortly.

Tamar de Waal

Bio to follow shortly.

Eric Boot – Webmaster

Eric Boot is an Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy and Legal Ethics at Amsterdam Law School. In November 2015 he obtained his PhD in philosophy of law at the Radboud University Nijmegen with honors. His dissertation on the philosophy of human rights won both the Praemium Erasmianum and the biennial VWR Dissertation Prize. After completed his PhD, he pursued his postdoctoral research at Leiden University and the Hoover Chair (University of Louvain). From 2020–2022 he worked at the Tilburg Law School as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law. He has enjoyed visiting positions at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pennsylvania and the UC Berkeley School of Law. His main research interests lie in professional ethics (regarding whistleblowing especially), the philosophy of human rights, the concept of ‘the public interest/common good,’ and Kant’s practical philosophy. Some of his main publications include Human Duties and the Limits of Human Rights Discourse (Springer, 2017) and The Ethics of Whistleblowing (Routledge, 2019). His articles have furthermore appeared in such journals as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, and Journal of Moral Philosophy.

Publications

Renetta Bos

Renetta Bos is a lecturer at the Ethics Institute, part of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and teaches and/or coordinates courses on ethics, political philosophy, applied ethics and PPE. She has a degree in law (LL.M) and philosophy (MA, MA). After her stay in Jena, Germany (2012-2013) she worked at the law faculty of Erasmus University Rotterdam (2014-2016), VU University (2016-2017), Utrecht University (2018-2020) and the University of Amsterdam (2020, 2021, 2022). Her publications often concern the intersection of legal-philosophical themes and (legal) education. She is currently preparing a dissertation on the concept of morality, in which Hegel’s legal philosophy is the starting point. She is also editor of the Philosophy and Education section of the Filosofie Tijdschrift.

Publications

Litska Strikwerda

Bio to follow shortly.

Thomas Riesthuis – Treasurer

Bio to follow shortly.

Maarten Stremler

Maarten Stremler is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at Maastricht University. His research and teaching focus on democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights in the Netherlands and the European Union. In addition to serving as a board member of The Netherlands Association for Philosophy of Law, he is an editorial board member of the European Yearbook of Constitutional Law and a fellow at the Montesquieu Institute. He is currently working on a research project exploring the foundations of constitutional scholarship. For his publications, see here.

 

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