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Leo Apostel (
Antwerp,
4 September 1925 -
Ghent,
10 August 1995) was a
Belgian philosopher and professor at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the
Universiteit Gent. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between
exact science and
humanities.
Biography
Leo Apostel was born
Antwerp in
1925. After the second World War he studied
philosophy at the
ULB in
Brussels with
philosopher of law and logician
Chaïm Perelman. He got his
M.A. at the
ULB in
Brussels in October
1948 with the thesis
Questions sur l'Introspection. For another year he stayed here working as an assistant of Perelman.
In
1950-
1951 Apostel is a CRB fellow at the
University of Chicago with
Rudolf Carnap and with
Carl Gustav Hempel at
Yale University. He promoted at the
ULB in March
1953 with the dissertation "La Loi et les Causes". In
1955 he went to
Geneva Switzerland to study a work with
Jean Piaget at the Centre International d'Epistémologie Génétique. Those experiences would influence the rest of his life.
From
1955 Apostel lectured
logic and
philosophy of science at the
Ghent University and the
ULB for three years. In
1958-
1959 he's visiting professor at the
Pennsylvania State University. From
1960 to
1979 he was a professor at the
Ghent University.
Leo Apostel was awarded the Solvay award for human sciences in
1985 and the
Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord in
1986. The transdisciplinary research department
Center Leo Apostel (CLEA) at the
Vrije Universiteit Brussel was named after him.
Work
Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between
exact science and
humanities.
In some of his so-called "natural philosophy" he worked in his beliefs as
freemason. He wrote two books about it:
Freemasonry: A Philosophical Essay in
1985, and
Atheïstische spiritualiteit in
1998.
His ideas about atheistic religiosity are widely acknowledged.
Origins
In his book "Oorsprong" (Origin) from
2000 Apostel gives an introduction of a
metaphysics about the beginning of
man,
life and the
universe. This work is part of his project to develop an own scientific metaphysics. The basic for this is the contemporary
philosophy of science and the existing sciences and humanities from physics, astrophysics, biology, geology to antropology. In this book he first outlines the term metaphysics, then presents an ontology, which results in an own consistent
world view.
Literature
Apostel wrote about 20 books and 100 articles in Dutch, French and English. His books:
- Matière et Forme
- Communication et Action,
- Logique et Dialectique,
- The Problem of African Philosophy,
- Afbraak en Opbouw,
- De Gebroken Orde,
- Waarde en Zin van de Cultuurwetenschappen in de 20e eeuw.
- 1985, Freemasonry: A Philosophical Essay
- 1998, Atheïstische spiritualiteit
About Leo Apsotel
Ingrid Van Dooren and Leo Apostel, The Philosophy of Leo Apostel: A life history Communication and Cognition, 1989. Further Information
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