Gottfried Ploucquet

Gottfried Ploucquet (born August 25, 1716 in Stuttgart , † September 13, 1790 in Tübingen ) was a German philosopher and logician . He was considered one of the most important philosophy and logic teachers of his time.

Life

Ploucquet was born in Stuttgart in 1716 as the son of a Huguenot refugee. After studying theology and working as a private tutor and pastor, Ploucquet was appointed to the chair for logic and metaphysics at the philosophical faculty in Tübingen in 1750 . After a stroke in February 1782, he spent the last eight years of his life "in complete seclusion". During his time at the Tübinger Stift he wrote several treatises on metaphysics and several logic compendia for his students. Since 1749 he was a foreign member of the Royal Prussian Society of Sciences . The Württemberg doctor Wilhelm Gottfried Ploucquet was his son.

Works

Dissertation, qua Varignionii demonstratio geometrica possibilitatis transsubstantionis enervantur (1740)
Primaria Monadologiae capita accessionibus quibusdam confirmata et ab objectionibus fortioribus vindicata (1748)
Methodus tractandi infinita in metaphysicis (1748)
De libero hominis arbitrio ex idea Spiritus deducto (1749)
Dissertatio de Materialismo, cum supplementis et confutatione libelli: L´homme machine: inscripti (1751)
Principia de substantiis et phaenomenis (1753) - digitized version of the 1764 edition in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania digital library
Fundamenta Philosophiae Speculativae (1759)
Dissertatio historico-cosmologica de lege continuitatis sive gradationis Leibniziana (1761)
Methodus Calculandi In Logicis: Praemittitur Commentatio De Arte Characteristica . Frankfurt 1763 ( online ).
Investigations and modifications of the logical constructions of Professor Lambert (1765)
Institutiones Philosophiae Theoreticae sive De arte cogitandi, notionibus rerum fundamentalibus, Deo, Universo, et speciatim De Homine (1772)
Expositiones Philosophiae Theoreticae (1782)

Modern editions

Logic . Ed., Translated and provided with an introduction by Michael Franz . Olms, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-487-13079-3 .

literature

Karl Aner: Gottfried Ploucquets life and teachings. Max Niemeyer publisher, Halle an der Saale 1909; Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1999, ISBN 3-487-10955-7 .
Albert Menne : The logic of Gottfried Ploucquet. Files of the XIV. Int. Congr. F. Philos. Vol. 3. Vienna 1968, pp. 45-48.
Carl von Prantl : Ploucquet, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 319 f.
Matthias Wolfes : Ploucquet, Gottfried. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 , Sp. 1162-1167. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Gottfried Ploucquet in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Gottfried Ploucquet in the German Digital Library
Gottfried Ploucquet at wikisource

Individual evidence

^ Carl von Prantl : Ploucquet, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 319 f.
^ Members of the previous academies. Gottfried Ploucket (Ploucquet). Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on May 26, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Ploucquet, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German philosopher and logician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 25, 1716
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH	September 13, 1790
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] Carl von Prantl : Ploucquet, Gottfried . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 319 f.

[2] Members of the previous academies. Gottfried Ploucket (Ploucquet). Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on May 26, 2015 .