About Egbert Schuurman:

Egbert Schuurman (1937), studied Civil Engineering at the Technological University of Delft
and Philosophy at the Free University of Amsterdam; is Professor in Reformational(Christian)
Philosophy at the Technological Universities of Delft and Eindhoven and at the Agricultural
University of Wageningen; is a Member of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament. Main publications in English are: Technology and the Future -- A Philosophical Challenge, Wedge,
Toronto, 1980; Reflections on the Technological Society, Wedge, 1983.2; Technology in
Christian-Philosophical Perspective, Potchefstroom, 1981; Information Society:
Impoverishment or enrichment of culture, Potchefstroom, 1984; Christians in Babel, Paideia
Press, Ontario,1987; The Future: Our Choice or Gods Gift?, Exile Publications, Wellington,
New Zealand, 1990; Perspectives on Technology and Culture, Pro Rege Press (1995); Faith,
Hope and Technology, Pater Noster Press, 2001;co-author of Responsible Technology,
Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, 1986; Ethics of Technology culture-pictures, motives, values and
norms (forthcoming). Several of these publications are translated in the Korean, Japanese or
Chinese language.
He is a doctor of honour of the University of Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Publications in English
Schuurman, E. (1977, 1983(2), Reflections on the Technological Society. Toronto: Wedge
Pub. (Also translated into the korean and japanese language).
Schuurman, E. (1980), Technology and the Future -- A Philos ophical Challenge. Toronto:
Wedge Pub. Translated by H.D. Morton. Originally published (1972) as Techniek en
Toekomst -- Confrontatie met wijsgerige beschouwingen. Assen: Van Gorcum. (Also
translated into the chinese language and partly into the korean language).
Schuurman, E. (1976), "Technology in Christian-philosophical Perspective", in: International
Reformed Bulletin, 19the year, 1976, nr. 67, p. 10-18.
Schuurman, E. (1980), The Cultural Mandate and Modern Technology, unpublished
guestlectures at The Reformed Semininary of Aix en Provende, France, 1980, 45 pp.
Schuurman, E., "Creation and Science: Fundamental questions concerning evolutionism and
creationism" in Issues, New Zealand, 1982, p. 3-7.
Schuurman, E. (1984), " A Christian Philosophical Perspective on Technology", in C.
Mitcham and J. Grote (eds), Theology and Technology, New York: University Press of America, pp. 107- 123.

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Schuurman, E., contributions to: Monsma, S.V.(ed.) (1986), Responsible Technology, Grand
Rapids, U.S.A.: Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Schuurman, E. (1987), Christians in Babel. Jordan Station: Paideis Press; (also translated into
the korean language).
Schuurman, E. (1987), "The Modern Babylonian Culture", in P. Durbin (ed.), Technology and
Responsibility. Dordrecht: Reidel, pp. 229-243.
Schuurman, E. (1992), "Crisis in Agriculture: Philosophical Perspective on the relation
between Agriculture and Nature", in F. Ferr (ed.), Research in Philosophy and Technology -Technology and the Environment. London: Jai Press, pp. 191-213; (also translated into the
korean language).
Schuurman, E. (1993), "Technicism and the dynamics of creation", Philosophia Reformata 58:
185-191.
Schuurman, E., " Toward a Critical Evaluation of Modern Technology in Western
Agriculture", in: Actas 2do. Congreso Interamericano de Filosofia de la Technologia, editado
por E. Lugo , H.J. Huyke, Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1995, p. 73-92.
-- Perspectives on Technology and Culture, vertaling J.H. Kok, Dordt College Press, Iowa,
USA, 1995, 165 p. ( Dit boek is onder dezelfde titel ook uitgekomen in Zuid Afrika: Potchefstroomse Universiteit, 1994.).
-- "The Technological Culture between the Times", in: Christian Philosophy at the Close of
the Twentieth Century, eds. S. Griffioen and B.M. Balk, Kok, Kampen, 1995, p. 185- 200.
Schuurman, E. (1995), "Technicism as the main climate of the West", in Westminster
Theological Journal.
-- Faith, Hope and Technology, Clements Publishing, Toronto, 2003.
-- Deliverance from the Technical World Picture - The Challenge of a radically altenative
ethics, Dordt Press, 2003 (forthcoming).
-- Philosophical and Ethical Problems of Genetic Engineering, In Techn Electronic
Journal for the Society for Philosophy and Technology, Vol.3,no. 1, 1997.
-- Beyond the empirical turn: responsible technology, Homepage Reform. Philosophy
(www. come. to reform.philos.)
-- Foreword in: Discerning Prometheus The Cry for Wisdom in Our
Technological Society,Pobert A. Wauzzinski, London: Associated University Presses, p. 1113.

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-- Enduring perspective in increasing cultural tensions, in: The Art of Living The
Cultural Challenge of the 21st Century,International Association Christian Artists,
Rotterdam, 2001, p. 79- 81.

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