Name Adriaan Heereboord Role Philosopher | Education Leiden University | |
Died December 25, 1659, Leiden, Netherlands | ||
Adriaan Heereboord (13 October 1613 in Leiden – 7 July 1661 in Leiden) was a Dutch philosopher and logician.
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Life
He was born in Leiden and graduated from the University of Leiden, where he had the chair of philosophy from 1643.
Heereboord sympathised with the new thinking of René Descartes, but was also influenced by Petrus Ramus and Francis Bacon. He clashed almost immediately at Leiden with Jacobus Revius and Adam Steuart, standing respectively for traditional metaphysics and theology. A combative drinker, Heereboord became an embattled figure in the university, with his private life the subject of pamphlets, and in the end dropped out of his duties.
Works
His works included:
He also edited and published the logic of his teacher and predecessor at Leiden, Franco Burgersdijk, as Hermeneia Logica, seu explicatio synopseos logicae Burgersdicianae (1659) and Praxis logica (1659).