Leo Apostel

Leo Apostel ( born September 4, 1925 in Antwerp, † August 10, 1995 in Ghent ) was a Belgian philosopher. He was regarded as the representative of interdisciplinarity in science, who sought to overcome the gap between exact science and humanities.

Life

Apostle studied after the Second World War philosophy at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and completed in 1948 as a MA from. He then assisted the Polish legal philosopher Chaim Perelman. At the University of Chicago, he studied 1950/51 as CRB Fellow with Rudolf Carnap and at Yale University in Carl Gustav Hempel. He received his doctorate in 1953 with the work La Loi et les Causes. In Switzerland, he worked with Jean Piaget in 1955 in the International Centre for Genetic Epistemology. After his return to Belgium, he taught at the Université Libre de Bruxelles logic and philosophy of science and as a lecturer in moral philosophy in Ghent. From 1958-1959, he was a "visiting professor" at the Pennsylvania State University. From 1960 to 1979 he taught as a professor at Ghent and teaching continues also at the University of Brussels.

Gained international recognition for his work for the apostle atheism by postulating an atheistic spirituality ( 1998). The humanism of Freemasonry had it formative.

In his posthumously published book Oorsprong (origin) apostles developed a scientific metaphysics, which opens into a consistent world view. Apostle here begins with an introduction to the concept of metaphysics and the origin of man, the universe and life. For the interpretation of the contemporary results of scientific research of natural and human sciences are used. So apostle creates a synthetic view of the world of knowledge of physics, astrophysics, biology, geology and anthropology.

Works (selection)

  • Wereldbeelden. Van fragments ring naar integratie. Pelckmans, chapels 1992, ISBN 90-289-1670-9.

Freemasonry: A philosophical essay (1985 )

  • Atheist spiritualiteit. VUBpress, Brussels 1998, ISBN 90-5487-168-7.
  • Oorsprong. Inleiding to metafysica een van het ontstaan ​​van mens; leven en heelal. VUBpress, Brussels 2000, ISBN 90-5487-268-3.
  • Hommage à Bärbel Inhelder. Pour ses quatre - vingts ans. Éditions Médicine & Hygiene, Geneva 1993.
  • Religious atheism? Éditions Story - Scientia, Ghent 1982, ISBN 90-6439-272-2.
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