Niels Openenberger

Niels Openenberger

Niels Openenberger (born March 9, 1930 in Kronstadt ) is a German philosopher and logician .

From Albert Mennes he's starting approach to the study of modern interpretation of Aristotelian logic operates. In particular, he was able to demonstrate that the main features of a multi-valued logic can be derived from the Aristotelian logic ( classical logic ).

Life

After completing his doctorate in 1969, he was first a Humboldt fellow, then a research assistant until 1995 at the Philosophical Department of the University of Münster . In 2003 he completed his habilitation in philosophy at the University of Pécs in Hungary and in the same year took on a visiting professorship at the Catholic University in Chile on the modern interpretation of Aristotelian logic. In 2008 he was appointed professor at the University of Pécs.

As part of his academic work, he particularly endeavored to promote international philosophical relations, in particular through the German-Argentine, German-Chilean, German-Romanian and German-Hungarian societies for philosophy, which he established as a founding member and as vice-president respectively Secretary General has helped shape.

Works

• On the modern interpretation of Aristotelian logic , greeted by Albert Menne and Niels Openenberger. Edited by Nielsöffenberger. Olms, Hildesheim 1982 ff. ( DNB 01048468X )
  • On the prehistory of multivalued logic in antiquity (= On the modern interpretation of Aristotelian logic . Volume 4). Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1990, ISBN 3-487-09350-2 .
    • Contribuţii la preistoria logicii polivalente în antichitate . Ed. Saeculum, Bucureşti 1993, ISBN 973-9071-25-2 .
    • A többértékű logika előtörténete az ókorba . Janus Pannonius Egyetemi K., Pécs 1994, ISBN 963-641-338X .
    • On the prehistory of many valued logic in antiquity (= Existentia. Supplementa . Volume 1). Soc. Philosophia Classica, Szeged / Budapest 1995, OCLC 500660800 .
    • La preistoria della logica polivalente nell'antichità (= Philosophica . Volume 130). ETS, Pisa 2014, ISBN 88-467-3978-7 .