Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck as Dutch philosopher (1887–1954).
Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck was born at Breukelen in 1887. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He studied at Gymnasium Haganum.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Leiden University and Leiden University.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Constantijn Huygens Prize (1947).
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck died in 1954, aged 67. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Constantijn Huygens Prize — 1947
- Held posts at Leiden University and Leiden University
