Anné Verhoef
Anné
Hendrik Verhoef is
a professor in philosophy, and director of the
school of philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities at the North-West University.
He studied at the University of Stellenbosch and at the Catholic University of
Leuven in Belgium. His interests are in metaphysics, religion, ethics, the
philosophy of happiness, and the philosophy of Paul Ricoeur. His research
focuses mainly on transcendence and the transcendent in contemporary culture,
and its relation to ethics, politics, meaning of life and happiness. He is a
NRF rated researcher and the co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Ethics
(ICE) at the North-West University.
