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Name: Couprie, Dirk Leendert
Date of birth: March 23, 1940 at The Hague
Address: St.Maartenslaan 51D, 6221 AW, Maastricht, The Netherlands
tel: 043-3262061
e-mail: dirkcouprie@dirkcouprie.nl
Education
- Gymnasium A, The
Hague, 1953-1959
- Philosophy at
the Universities of Groningen and Leiden, 1959-1965(I studied mainly with the
professors C.A.van Pursen † (contemporary philosophy), A.G.M.van Melsen †
(logic and philosophy of the sciences), F.L.R.Sassen † (Greek/Roman philosophy,
metaphysics), L.M.de Rijk (Medieval philosophy), G.Nuchelmans † (analytic
philosophy, philosophy of language), O.D.Duintjer (metaphysics, modern
philosophy, esp. Kant and Heidegger), J.H.M.M.Loenen † (Greek philosophy,
philosophy of culture), and C.W.M.Verhoeven † (Greek philosophy, metaphysics).
- Ph.D. at the
University of Amsterdam, 1989 (thesis on Anaximander, see publications on Anaximander).
Working
career
(I have had two alternating careers: as a professional
philosopher on the one hand, and as a university- and school-manager on the
other):
1. Professional
career as a philosopher:
-
1965-1971: Associate Professor (“Wetenschappelijk hoofdmedewerker”) at the
Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Leiden.
I read courses in: introduction to philosophy, survey of the history of
philosophy, capita selecta of Greek philosophy, metaphysics and the history of
modern philosophy.
- sabbatical leave, 1975-1976, during which I worked on a Ph.D. thesis which
was not finished because of an appointment as director of an Academy for Social
Work, see below.
-
1986 - 1989: Working on a Ph.D. thesis on Anaximander with professor Cornelis
Verhoeven † of the University of Amsterdam (other members of the
examining-board were the professors David Runia (Hellenic Studies, University
of Leiden) and Jan van Paradijs † (Astronomy, University of Amsterdam).
-
since 1995: star member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory
and Interpretation (ASCA) of the University of Amsterdam (no teaching
obligations; the ASCA is a research-school).
Since 1986, apart from some interim-management interludes, see below, I am an independent researcher. See the lists of publications on Anaximander and other philosophical publications.
2.
University- and schoolmanagement career.
- chairman of the
University Council of the University of Leiden, 1971-1975 (The University
Council was a management board, chosen by the university community, and I was
chosen as chairman; this was a full-time management job).
- director of the
Academy for Social Work at Hengelo, 1976-1986 (this was also a management job,
without teaching tasks).
- chairman of the
Board of Directors (interim-manager) of the Oosterborch-college at Enschede,
1990. (I was asked to manage the merger of three schools for professional
education).
- interim-manager
of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Amsterdam, 1991-1994. (I was
asked by the University Board to conduct the reorganization of the Faculty,
both on the human resource level and as regards the teaching- and research
programs).
- interim-manager
of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Amsterdam, 1992 (the same
University Board asked me to finish the reorganization which has been conducted
by another interim-manager).