Education
Algra studied Classical languages and literature at Utrecht University.
philosopher university professor
Algra studied Classical languages and literature at Utrecht University.
In 1985 he became a university lecturer. In 2001 he started as professor of Ancient and Medieval philosophy at the same university. In 2003 he gave the Alfred Edward Taylor lecture at the University of Edinburgh.
He headed a KNAW committee which looked into the state of trust in Dutch science after a case in which Diederik Stapel had fabricated data, a report called Vertrouwen in wetenschap was published in May 2013.