Gabriel Nuchelmans

Gabriel RFM Nuchelmans (born May 15, 1922 in Oud-Gastel / North Brabant ; † August 6, 1996 ) was a Dutch philosopher specializing in the history of philosophy , in particular the philosophy of the Middle Ages , as well as logic and the philosophy of language .

Life

After finishing high school at the Episcopal College of Roermond , Nuchelmans studied at the Catholic University of Nijmegen , where he took the exam in 1947. During his doctorate, he spent a year in Friborg / Switzerland with Olof Gigon and Joseph Maria Bocheński . In 1947/48 he attended events by Alfred Ayer and Stuart Hampshire at University College London . He also heard Karl Popper and OJ Wisdom at the London School of Economics . After obtaining his PhD , Nuchelmans taught Latin and Greek in Velsen for fourteen years . From 1964 he taught at the philosophical institute of the University of Leiden philosophy of antiquity and analytical philosophy and their history until he retired with his farewell lecture on September 10, 1987. Nuchelmans had been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 1975 . His large work in three volumes on the history of proposition will remain the standard work for a long time.

Fonts

• Studies on Philologos, Philologia and Philologein , Zwolle 1950
• Theories of the proposition: ancient and medieval conceptions of the bearers of truth and falsity , North-Holland, Amsterdam / London 1973, ISBN 0-7204-6188-X
• Late-Scholastic and Humanist Theories of the Proposition (Verhandelingen Der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Afd.Letterkunde), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences 1980, ISBN 978-0720484687
• Judgment and proposition: from Descartes to Kant , North-Holland, Amsterdam / London 1983, ISBN 0-4448-5571-8
• Geulincx Containment Theory of Logic (Mededelingen Der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Afd.Letterkunde), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences 1988, ISBN 978-0444856982
• Dilemmatic arguments: towards a history of their logic and rhetorics , North-Holland, Amsterdam / London 1991, ISBN 0-444-85730-3
• Secundum / Tertium Adiacens. Vicissitudes of a Logical Distinction (Mededelingen Der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen, Afd.Letterkunde), Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, Amsterdam 1992, ISBN 978-0444857620
• Studies in the History of Logic and Semantics, 12th - 17th Century , edited by EBBos, Variorum, Aldershot 1996 ( online ; PDF; 105 MB)
• Logic in the Seventeenth century: preliminary remarks and the constituents of the proposition , The Cambridge history of Seventeenth-century philosophy. Edited by Garber Daniel and Ayers Michael. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 103-117
• Proposition and Judgment , The Cambridge history of Seventeenth-century philosophy. Edited by Garber Daniel and Ayers Michael. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 118-131
• Deductive reasoning , The Cambridge history of Seventeenth-century philosophy. Edited by Garber Daniel and Ayers Michael. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 132-146

Popular scientific writings

• David Hume , 1965 (Dutch)
• Proeven van analytischem filosoferen , 1967
• Overzicht van de analytische wijsbegeerte . 1969
• Wijsbegeerte en taal , 1976
• Taalfilosofie. Een inleiding . 1978

literature

• Herman Philipse: Ter Nagedachtenis aan Gabriel Nuchelmans (1922-1996) , In: Allgemeine Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte , Vol. 89, 1997, pp. 157-160. pdf
• LM de Rijk: Gabriel RFM Nuchelmans. May 15, 1922 - August 6, 1996 , In: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Levensberichten en Herdenkingen 1998. pdf
• LM de Rijk, AG Braakhuis (ed.): Logos and Pragma, Festschrift for the 65th birthday with bibliography , Nijmegen 1987

Individual evidence

1. ↑ De drie boeken over de geschiedenis van het propositiebegrip zullen vele jaren het staandaardwerk over dit onderwerp blijven . (H. Philipse, Obituary, p. 159).