Hector-Neri Castañeda

Hector-Neri Castañeda (born December 13, 1924 in Cabañas , Zacapa ; † September 7, 1991 ) was an American philosopher and founder of the magazine Noûs .

Castañeda, who was born in Guatemala, emigrated to the United States in 1948 to study philosophy with Wilfrid Sellars at the University of Minnesota (BA 1950, MA 1952). In June 1954 Castañeda graduated with a thesis entitled "The Logical Structure of Moral Reasoning" to the doctor of philosophy. This was followed by two years of study at Oxford University (1955/56), after which he returned to the United States to hold a chair at Duke University .

Castañeda is best known for his contributions to deontic logic, to the theory of perception, cognition and action, to his theory of empirical knowledge, the so-called gestalt theory ( Guise Theory ) and for the first description of quasi- indexical expressions .

Castañeda died in Bloomington, Indiana in 1991 as a result of a brain tumor .

academic career

After a short time as an assistant professor at Duke University, Castañeda was appointed professor of philosophy at Wayne State University in Detroit (Michigan), where he taught from 1957 to 1969. During this time, in 1967, he published the first issue of the philosophical journal Noûs . In 1962 and 1963 he was also a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin . Between 1967 and 1968 he was a fellow of the renowned John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation .

In 1969 he moved to Indiana University in Bloomington (Indiana), where he was finally Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy, and (as the first in the history of the university) Dean of Latin American Affairs (1978-1981). In 1981 and 1982 he was a researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences . Between 1988 and 1990 lengthy stays and lectures at the universities of Rotterdam, Freiburg and Heidelberg. In 1990 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Publications (selection)

Essays

"7 + 5 = 12" As a Synthetic Proposition, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 21, no. 2 (Dec., 1960), pp. 141-158
On the Semantics of the Ought-to-Do (1970)
Intentions and the Structure of Intending (1971)
The Paradoxes of Deontic Logic (1981)

Books

Morality and the Language of Conduct (with George Nakhnikian), Detroit (Michigan): Wayne State University Press 1963
The Structure of Morality, Springfield (Illinois): Charles C. Thomas Publisher 1974
On Philosophical Method, Bloomington (Indiana): NOUS Publications 1980
Thinking and Doing, The Philosophical Foundations of Institutions, Dordrecht: Reidel Publ Comp 1975, Pallas Paperback 1982
Agent, Language, and the Structure of the World. Essays presented to Hector-Neri Castaneda with his replies, Edited by James E. Tomberlin, Hackett Publishing Company 1983
Thinking, Language and Experience, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1989
Language and experience. Texts on a new ontology, introduced and translated by Helmut Pape, Frankfurt aM: Suhrkamp 1982
The Phenomeno-Logic of the I: Essays on Self-Consciousness, James G. Hart and Tomis Kapitan (Eds.), Bloomington / Indianapolis: Indiana University Press 1999

literature

James B. Tomberlin : Agent, Language and the Structure of the World: Essays Presented to Hector-Neri Castaneda With His Replies . Atascadero (CA): Ridgeview Pub. Co. 1983. ISBN 978-0-915145-55-3
James T. Tomberlin Ed .: Hector-Neri Castañeda (Series: Profiles). Dordrecht: Reidel Publishing Company 1986. ISBN 978-90-277-2073-3
Klaus Jacobi and Helmut Pape Eds .: Thinking and the Structure of the World / Thinking and the Structure of the World. Hector-Neri Castañeda's epistemic Ontology presented and criticized / Hector-Neri Castañeda's epistemic Ontology in presentation and criticism . Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 1990. ISBN 978-3-11-011302-0
Francesco Orilia and WJRapaport Eds .: Thought, Language and Ontology: Essays in Memory of Hector-Neri Castañeda (Philosophical Studies Series 76) . Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer 1998. ISBN 978-0-7923-5197-9 (Kindle Edition 1998)
David P. Schweikard: Hector-Neri Castañeda: The Phenomeno-Logic of the I. In: Michael Quante (Hrsg.): Kleines Werklexikon der Philosophie (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 402). Kröner, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-520-40201-1 , pp. 99-101.
Ralf Busse : Perception, indexicality and reflection. Hector-Neri Castañeda's ontology and perceptual theory and the possibility of phenomenological reflection. Frankfurt a. M .: Ontos 2005

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personal data
SURNAME	Castañeda, Hector-Neri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Guatemalan philosopher and founder of the magazine Noûs
DATE OF BIRTH	December 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cabañas , Zacapa
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1991