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Herman Philipse (born 13 May 1951) is a Dutch professor of philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Philipse taught at Leiden University from 1986 until 2003 where he obtained his doctorate in 1983.
In his philosophical work, Philipse defends a non-Reductionism naturalism, akin to that of Gilbert Ryle, Peter Strawson, and P.M.S. Hacker. While highly critical of the transcendental idealist tradition of Immanuel Kant and Husserl for its incoherent notion of conceptual schemes, Philipse argues that scientism philosophies that attempt to reduce consciousness to purely physical descriptions (such as those of Quine and Paul Churchland) fall victim to a similar inconsistency: their theories logically depend on the concepts of ordinary human life they would abolish. More generally, Philipse firmly defends the values of the Enlightenment: support for the and political liberalism.
In 2012, he published God in the Age of Science. A Critique of Religious Reason.
During 2014-2019, Philipse presided a research programme on “Evolutionary Ethics: The (Meta-)Ethical Implications of Evolutionary Theory”, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek).
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