Background
Grieder, Alfons was born on May 27, 1935 in Wenslingen, Baselland, Switzerland. Son of Traugott and Amalie (Buess) Grieder.
Grieder, Alfons was born on May 27, 1935 in Wenslingen, Baselland, Switzerland. Son of Traugott and Amalie (Buess) Grieder.
Teaching diploma in primary education, Evangelical Mittelschule, Schiers, Switzerland, 1955. Swiss national diploma in physics, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University Bristol, England, 1972.
Postgraduate, University Zurich, 1965.
Teacher Basel County, Switzerland, 1955-1956. Assistant in higher mathematics Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 1962-1963. Lecturer philosophy City University, London, 1967, senior lecturer philosophy, 1981-1989, reader, head philosophy division, 1989-2000.
Visiting professor City University, London, since 2001.
Member of Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft, British Society Philosophy of Science, British Society Phenomenology (president 1989-1993, vice president 1993—2001), Association Amis de Gaston Bachelard.
Married Christiane Mangold (divorced 1967). Married Linda Maria Liebold, July 15, 1967. Children: Peter E., Robert K., Esther M., Thomas S.