Dr. H. (Hein) van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Philosophical Tradition in Context
Visiting address
- Oude Turfmarkt 143
Postal address
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Postbus 94201
1090 GE Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
- refereed (26)
- academic (12)
- popular scientific (1)
- conference contributions (1)
- recognitions (33)
- doctoral thesis (1)
2024
van den Berg, H. (2024). Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800: Kant and Cuvier. Studies in history and philosophy of science, 105, 109-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.05.003 [details]- van den Berg, H., & Demarest, B. (2024). Induction and Certainty in the Physics of Wolff and Crusius. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 32(5), 1052-1073. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2023.2291031 [details]
2023
- van den Berg, H. (2023). The Essentialism of Early Modern Psychiatric Nosology. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 45(2), Article 12. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-023-00562-x [details]
2022
- Demarest, B., & van den Berg, H. (2022). Kant's Theory of Scientific Hypotheses in its Historical Context. Studies in history and philosophy of science, 92, 12-19. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.01.011 [details]
- van den Berg, H. (2022). Animal Languages in Eighteenth-Century German Philosophy and Science. Studies in history and philosophy of science, 93, 72-81. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.03.003 [details]
- van den Berg, H. (2022). Evaluating the Validity of Animal Models of Mental Disorder: From Modeling Syndromes to Modeling Endophenotypes. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44(4), Article 59. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00537-4 [details]
2021
- van den Berg, H. (2021). Kant’s Ideal of Systematicity in Historical Context. Kantian Review, 26(2), 261-286. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415420000576 [details]
2020
- van den Berg, H. (2020). Theoretical Virtues in Eighteenth-Century Debates on Animal Cognition. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 42(3), Article 37. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00332-z [details]
- van den Berg, H., & Demarest, B. (2020). Axiomatic Natural Philosophy and the Emergence of Biology as a Science. Journal of the History of Biology, 53(3), 379-422. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-020-09609-2 [details]
2019
- Betti, A., van den Berg, H., Oortwijn, Y., & Treijtel, C. (2019). History of Philosophy in Ones and Zeros. In E. Fischer, & M. Curtis (Eds.), Methodological Advances in Experimental Philosophy (pp. 295-332). (Advances in Experimental Philosophy). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350069022.ch-011 [details]
- Castermans, T., Verbeek, K., Speckmann, B., Westenberg, M. A., Koopman, R., Wang, S., van den Berg, H., & Betti, A. (2019). SolarView: Low Distortion Radial Embeddings with a Focus. IEEE Transactions on visualization and computer graphics, 25(10), 2969-2982. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865361 [details]
2018
- van den Berg, H. (2018). A Blooming and Buzzing Confusion: Buffon, Reimarus, and Kant on Animal Cognition. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 72, 1-9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2018.10.002 [details]
- van den Berg, H. (2018). Kant and the Scope of Analogy in the Life Sciences. Studies in history and philosophy of science. Part A, 71, 67-76. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.07.007 [details]
- van den Berg, H. (2018). Kants coherentisme en conceptualisme: Commentaar op Schultings Kant's Radical Subjectivism. Tijdschrift voor Filosofie, 80(2), 355-361. https://doi.org/10.2143/TVF.80.2.3285306 [details]
- van den Berg, H., Betti, A., Castermans, T., Koopman, R., Speckmann, B., Verbeek, K., van der Werf, T., Wang, S., & Westenberg, M. A. (2018). A Philosophical Perspective on Visualization for Digital Humanities. In 3rd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities: Sunday, 21 October 2018 - Berlin, Germany : accepted papers VIS4DH. http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/papers/2018/A%20Philosophical%20Perspective%20on%20Visualization%20for%20Digital%20Humanities.pdf [details]
2017
- Betti, A., Reynaert, M., & van den Berg, H. (2017). @PhilosTEI: Building Corpora for Philosophers. In J. Odijk, & A. van Hessen (Eds.), CLARIN in the Low Countries (pp. 379-392). Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bbi.32 [details]
2016
- Betti, A., & van den Berg, H. (2016). Towards a Computational History of Ideas. In L. Wieneke, C. Jones, M. Düring, F. Armaselu, & R. Leboutte (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third Conference on Digital Humanities in Luxembourg with a Special Focus on Reading Historical Sources in the Digital Age: Luxembourg, Luxembourg, December 5-6, 2013 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 1681). CEUR-WS. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1681/Betti_van_den_Berg_computational_history_of_ideas.pdf [details]
- Betti, A., Castermans, T., Speckmann, B., van den Berg, H., & Verbeek, K. (2016). GlamMapping Trove. In VALA2016 Proceedings: The VALA2016 18th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 9–11 February 2016 VALA. http://www.vala.org.au/vala2016-proceedings/vala2016-session-8-betti [details]
- Castermans, T., Speckmann, B., Verbeek, K., Westenberg, M. A., Betti, A., & van den Berg, H. (2016). GlamMap: Geovisualization for E-Humanities. In 1st Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities: Monday, 24 October 2016 - Baltimore, Maryland, USA : accepted papers VIS4DH. http://vis4dh.dbvis.de/papers/2016/GlamMap%20Geovisualization%20for%20e-Humanities.pdf [details]
2014
- Betti, A., & van den Berg, H. (2014). Modelling the History of Ideas. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 22(4), 812-835. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788.2014.949217 [details]
- Betti, A., Gerrits, D. H. P., Speckmann, B., & van den Berg, H. (2014). GlamMap: visualizing library metadata. In VALA 2014 Proceedings: VALA 2014: 3-6 February 2014, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, streaming with possibilities VALA. https://www.vala.org.au/vala2014-proceedings/vala2014-session-13-betti/ [details]
- van den Berg, H. (2014). Kant on Proper Science: Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum. (Studies in German Idealism; Vol. 15). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7140-6
- van den Berg, H., Parra, G., Jentzsch, A., Drakos, A., & Duval, E. (2014). Studying the history of philosophical ideas: supporting research discovery, navigation, and awareness. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-driven Business: i-KNOW '14 : Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014 Article 12 Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637748.2638412 [details]
2013
- van den Berg, H. (2013). The Wolffian Roots of Kant's Teleology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44(4B), 724-734. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.07.003 [details]
- van den Berg, H. (2013). Wolff and Kant on Scientific Demonstration and Mechanical Explanation. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 95(2), 178-205. https://doi.org/10.1515/agph-2013-0008
2011
- van den Berg, H. (2011). Kant's Conception of Proper Science. Synthese, 183(1), 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-009-9665-y
2025
- van den Berg, H. (in press). Systematicity, the Life Sciences, and the Possibility of Laws Concerning Life. In G. Gava, T. Sturm, & A. Vesper (Eds.), Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences Routledge.
2020
- van den Berg, H. (2020). [Review of: E. Watkins (2019) Kant on Laws]. European journal of philosophy, 28(3), 830-832. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12591 [details]
2016
- Benardou, A., Duval, E., Parra, G., Charleer, S., Jentzsch, A., van den Berg, H., Stoitsis, G., van Berchum, M., & Stavrakaki, M. (2016). D3.3 Evaluation report: Evaluation report on integration of tools with Europeana. (v21 ed.) Europeana Cloud. [details]
- Duval, E., Parra, G., Charleer, S., Jentzsch, A., van den Berg, H., Stoitsis, G., Galani, K., Marianos, N., Drakos, A., van Berchum, M., & Stavrakaki, M. (2016). D3.2 Tools and services: A set of tools and services for researchers that exploit Europeana content. (v19 ed.) Europeana Cloud. [details]
- Duval, E., Parra, G., van Berchum, M., van den Berg, H., Jentzsch, A., Manouselis, N., Stoitsis, G., Tsekouras, A., Charleer, S., & Stavrakaki, M. (2016). D3.1 Personas, scenarios and use cases. (2.20 ed.) Europeana Cloud. [details]
- van den Berg, H. (2016). [Review of: B.W. Hall (2015) The post-critical Kant: understanding the critical philosophy through the Opus postumum]. Kantian Review, 21(2), 329-333. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1369415416000133 [details]
- van den Berg, H. (Author). (2016). Hein v.d. Berg on Bryan Hall's "The Post-Critical Kant": [Review of: B. Hall (2015) The Post-Critical Kant : Understanding the Critical Philosophy through the Opus Postumum]. Web publication or website, Critique: Discussing New Books on Kant, German Idealism & Beyond. https://virtualcritique.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/hein-v-d-berg-on-bryan-halls-the-post-critical-kant/ [details]
2014
- Betti, A., & van den Berg, H. (2014). @PhilosTEI: Final user evaluation report.
- van den Berg, H. (2014). Hein v.d. Berg on Jennifer Mensch’s “Kant’s Organicism”. Web publication or website, Critique: Discussing New Books on Kant, German Idealism & Beyond. https://virtualcritique.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/hein-v-d-berg-on-jennifer-menschs-kants-organicism/
- van den Berg, H. (2014). Review of Jennifer Mensch, Kant's Organicism: Epigenesis and the Development of Critical Philosophy. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 28(1), 99-101.
2011
- van den Berg, H. (2011). The Classical Model of Science II, 2-5 August. The Reasoner, 5(9), 153. https://research.kent.ac.uk/reasoning/wp-content/uploads/sites/581/2019/06/TheReasoner-59.pdf
2009
- van den Berg, H. (2009). Kant on Vital Forces: Metaphysical Concerns versus Scientific Practice. In E-O. Onnasch (Ed.), Kants Philosophie der Natur: Ihre Entwicklung im Opus postumum und ihre Wirkung (pp. 115-135). Walter de Gruyter.
2013
- Betti, A. (Author), van den Berg, H. (Author), & Smid, J. (Author). (2013). Computers in de Filosofie: Artikel voor De Groene Amsterdammer. Web publication or website
2020
- Oortwijn, Y., van den Berg, H., & Betti, A. (2020). Ground Truths in the Humanities. Paper presented at 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, Salt Lake City , Utah, United States. https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12841 [details]
Talk / presentation
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) (3-12-2024). Wundt and Kraepelin: An Attempt to Ground Psychiatry as a Proper Science, The Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh.
- Demarest, B. (speaker) & van den Berg, H. (speaker) (12-7-2024). Medicine as Proper Science in the Eighteenth Century, Hopos 2024, Vienna.
- Betti, A. (invited speaker) & van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) (24-6-2024). Hacking for the Future: How to Model Styles of Reasoning and Scientific Revolutions, Variations on Style: historical and philosophical perspectives, Online.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (17-6-2024). Explanation, Teleology, and Analogy in Natural History and Comparative Anatomy Around 1800: Kant and Cuvier., AMFIBI student symposium 2024, Amsterdam.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (13-6-2024). Kant and Present-Day Psychiatry, Amsterdam Kant Conference 2024, Amsterdam.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) & Betti, A. (speaker) (7-6-2024). Data-driven History of Axiomatics: or Logic through the centuries as much more alive than ever thought before, ILLC Open Day, Amsterdam.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) (14-11-2023). Explanation, Teleology, and Analogy in Natural History and Comparative Anatomy around 1800: Kant and Cuvier, Analogie und Wissenschaft in Kants Kritik der Urteilskraft, Lake Como.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (12-6-2023). The Causes of Psychiatric Disorders (and Some Philosophy), AmFiBi Philosophy Student Symposium, Amsterdam.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) (25-8-2022). Wolff and Kant on essences, explanation and laws in science., Essences, Dispositions and Laws in Kant, Trier.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (22-6-2022). The Essentialism of Early Modern Psychiatric Nosology, AmFiBi Philosophy Student Symposium, Amsterdam.
- Oortwijn, Y. (speaker), van den Berg, H. (speaker) & Betti, A. (speaker) (25-10-2020). Ground Truths for the Humanities, 5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, Salt Lake City . https://vis4dh.dbvis.de/provocations/
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) & Demarest, B. (invited speaker) (9-10-2020). Kant on Scientific Hypotheses: Historical and Systematic Perspectives, Kantian Rationality in Philosophy of Science, Kaliningrad.
- Parisi, M. (speaker) & van den Berg, H. (speaker) (10-2-2020). Expert Annotations, eIdeas Seminar, Zuidoostbeemster.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) & Betti, A. (invited speaker) (27-1-2020). From Annotation to Ontologies, Computational History of Ideas: Issues and Directions, Groningen.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (7-8-2019). Theoretical Virtues in Eighteenth-Century Debates on Animal Cognition, CLMPST2019: 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Prague.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) (8-7-2019). Kant's Ideal of Systematicity in Historical Context, Kant and the Systematicity of the Sciences, Frankfurt.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker), Betti, A. (speaker), Oortwijn, Y. (speaker) & Treijtel, C. (speaker) (23-10-2018). History of Philosophy in Ones and Zeros.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (13-7-2018). Kant’s Ideal of Systematicity in Historical Context, Mathematics and its Philosophy in the 18th and 19th Century, Amsterdam.
- Betti, A. (keynote speaker) & van den Berg, H. (keynote speaker) (7-12-2017). Data-Driven Philosophy: The State of the Art, Reading like a Human (SMART CS conference workshop), Amsterdam.
- Betti, A. (keynote speaker) & van den Berg, H. (keynote speaker) (20-6-2017). A Computational History of Ideas, Lorentz Workshop: Visualising Digital Humanities, Leiden .
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) & Betti, A. (invited speaker) (31-5-2017). Creating a Computational History of Ideas, Never Mine the Mind, Helsinki.
- van den Berg, H. (keynote speaker) & Betti, A. (keynote speaker) (20-1-2017). Computationele Ideeëngeschiedenis, Historische Kranten als Big Data II, Den Haag.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (9-12-2016). Kant and the Scope of Analogy in the Life Sciences, Fourth annual OZSW conference, Groningen.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (22-11-2016). Towards a Computational History of Ideas, DESIDERIA Workshop Concept Mining, Amsterdam.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) & Betti, A. (invited speaker) (22-11-2016). Towards a Computational History of Ideas, DESIDERIA Workshop Concept Mining, Amsterdam.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (28-10-2016). GlamMap: visualizing library metadata, 7th International Conference of Art Libraries, Florence.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker), Betti, A. (invited speaker), Castermans, T. (invited speaker), Westenberg, M. (invited speaker), Speckmann, B. (invited speaker) & Verbeek, K. (invited speaker) (28-10-2016). GlamMap: Visualizing Library Metadata, 7th International Conference of Art Libraries, Florence.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (6-7-2016). Animal Cognition in the Eighteenth Century: Historical Perspectives & future research.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) & Betti, A. (invited speaker) (6-7-2016). Animal Cognition in the Eighteenth Century: Historical Perspectives and Future Research, Third ILLC Lola Day, Amsterdam.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (30-6-2016). Science and Teleology: Wolff, Reimarus & Kant, The Challenge of Natural Teleology: Final Causes from Aristotle to Darwin , Groningen.
- van den Berg, H. (speaker) (17-6-2016). Axiomatic Ideals of Science and Concept Drift.
- van den Berg, H. (invited speaker) & Betti, A. (invited speaker) (17-6-2016). Axiomatic Ideals of Science and Concept Drift, ILLC Midsummernight Colloquium, Amsterdam.
- Betti, A. (speaker) & van den Berg, H. (keynote speaker) (10-6-2016). Taking the computational turn in the History of Ideas, Digital Humanities Benelux Conference 2016, Luxembourg.
2011
- van den Berg, H. (2011). Kant on Proper Science: Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum. [Thesis, fully external, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam]. [Vrije Universiteit]. http://hdl.handle.net/1871/18969
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van den Berg, H. (2024). Explanation, teleology, and analogy in natural history and comparative anatomy around 1800: Kant and Cuvier. Studies in history and philosophy of science, 105, 109-119.