唐納德·韋比(Donald Wiebe),復旦大學社會科學高等研究院學術委員。
韋比教授現任加拿大多倫多大學三一學院哲學教授。他的主要研究興趣包括社會科學哲學、認識論、宗教哲學、宗教的學術科學研究史、宗教研究的方法和理論等方面。他的著作包括Religion and Truth: Towards an Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion(1981)、The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought(1991)、Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge(1994)、The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy(1999)。他還編著了許多書籍和會議文集,為彼得朗出版公司主編“多倫多宗教研究”系列圖書。
1985年,韋比博士與盧瑟·馬丁(Luther H. Martin)和E.托馬斯·羅森(E. Thomas Lawson)共同創立了北美宗教研究學會,該學會於1990年成為國際宗教史協會(IAHR)的成員單位。韋比博士先後兩次(1986-87, 1991-92)擔任了學會主席。
Prof. Donald Wiebe currently works as professor of philosophy at Trinity College in the University of Toronto, Canada. His primary areas of research interest are philosophy of the social sciences, epistemology, philosophy of religion, the history of the academic and scientific study of religion, and method and theory in the study of religion.
He is the author of Religion and Truth: Towards an Alternative Paradigm for the Study of Religion (1981), The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought (1991), Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge (1994), and The Politics of Religious Studies: The Continuing Conflict with Theology in the Academy (1999). He has edited several books and sets of congress proceedings, and edits the series TORONTO STUDIES IN RELIGION for Peter Lang Press.
In 1985 Dr. Wiebe, with Luther H. Martin and E. Thomas Lawson, founded the North American Association for the Study of Religion which became affiliated to the IAHR in 1990; he twice served as President of that Association (1986-87, 1991-92).