Héctor-Neri Castañeda

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

Born in Guatemala, Castañeda 1948 emigrated to the United States in order to study philosophy at Wilfrid Sellars at the University of Minnesota ( BA 1950, MA 1952). In June 1954, received his doctorate with a thesis Castañeda titled " The Logical Structure of Moral Reasoning " Doctor of Philosophy. It was followed by two years of study at Oxford University (1955 /56), after which he returned to the United States, in order to represent a chair at Duke University.

Became known Castañeda especially for his contributions to deontic logic, 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 1991 in Bloomington (Indiana) as a result of a brain tumor.

Academic career

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

In 1969 he moved to Indiana University in Bloomington (Indiana), where he was finally Mahlon Powell Professor of Philosophy, as well as ( the first in the history of the University ) Dean for Latin American Affairs ( 1978-1981 ). In the years 1981 and 1982 he worked as a scientist at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Between 1988 and 1990, extended stays and lectures at the Universities of Rotterdam, Freiburg and Heidelberg.

Publications (selection)

Papers

  • " 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 )
  • 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 to a new ontology, Introduced and translated by Helmut Pape, Frankfurt aM: Suhrkamp 1982
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