Background
Nuchelmans, Gabriel was born on May 15, 1922 in Oud-Gastel, The Netherlands.
philosopher of language Philosopher of logic
Nuchelmans, Gabriel was born on May 15, 1922 in Oud-Gastel, The Netherlands.
After completing high school at the Episcopal School of Roermond, Nuchelmans studied at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, where he made his Doctor of Philosophy in 1947. During the Doctor of Philosophy he spent a year in Freiburg / Switzerland with Olof Gigon and Joseph Maria Bocheński. In 1947/48 he attended courses by Alfred Ayer and Stuart Hampshire, at University College London.
He also heard, at the London School of Economics, Karl Popper and O.J. Wisdom. After admission to the Doctor of Philosophy Nuchelmans taught for fourteen years Latin and Greek in Velsen. 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.
Nuchelmans is one of the editors of the Synthese Library and, until very recently, was a member of the editorial board of Synthese Historical Library. He is especially interested in subjects belonging to the philosophy of logic, philosophical semantics and philosophy of language in general, both from a systematic and from a historical point of view and in particular with the purpose of showing how these viewpoints can be fruitfully connected. Some of his main activities are the study of the validity of judgements and the analysis of normative rules in language.
Nuchelmans had since 1975 been a member of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.