Gabriel Nuchelmans
Appearance
Gabriel Nuchelmans (15 May 1922,
philosopher, who focused on the history of philosophy as well as on logic and the philosophy of language
more in particular.
Biography
After completing
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.[1]
His great work in three volumes on the history of the theories of proposition (1973, 1980, 1983) will remain for a long time the standard work on the subject.
He also wrote several more introductory books, i.a. on
analytical philosophy
(1969).
Selected publications
- 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, North-Holland, Amsterdam/London 1980, ISBN 978-0-7204-8468-7
- Judgement and proposition. From Descartes to Kant, North-Holland, Amsterdam/London 1983, ISBN 0-444-85571-8
- ISBN 978-0-444-85698-2
- Dilemmatic Arguments. Towards a History of Their Logic and Rhetoric, 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 1992, ISBN 978-0-444-85762-0
- Studies in the History of Logic and Semantics, 12th – 17th Century, edited durch E.P. Bos, Variorum, Aldershot 1996 (reprint of 17 essays) (online)
- Logic in the Seventeenth Century. Preliminary Remarks and the Constituents of the Proposition, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Edited by Daniel Garber and Michael R. Ayers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 103–117
- Proposition and Judgement, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Edited by Daniel Garber and Michael R. Ayers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 118–131
- Deductive Reasoning, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy. Edited by Daniel Garber and Michael R. Ayers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1998. pp. 132–146
References
- ^ "G.R.F.M. Nuchelmans (1922 - 1996)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
Sources
- L. M. de Rijk, H. A. G. Braakhuis (eds.): Logos and Pragma. Essays on the Philosophy of Language in Honour of Professor Gabriel Nuchelmans Nijmegen, Ingenium Publishers, 1987 (with a bibliography of his works (1950–1987)
- L. M. de Rijk, Biography (in Dutch)