Critical Problem-Historical Method
Prof. Vollenhoven started work on what became the Schematic Charts5 for the history of Western Philosophy according to what he now began calling his Consequent Problem-Historical Method to distinguish it from other methods which he alleged operated with less rigour and less sense of the scope of problems to be explored and connections to be clarified. The Schematisch Kaarten (Schematic Charts) finally appeared in Dutch long after Vollenhoven's retirement and death in 1978, posthumously in 2000. This was due to the work of Dr Kor Bril, assisted by (now Dr) P. Boonstra. This publication, still in Dutch only, classifies and briefly charactrises 16,000 philosophers, purportedly based on close empirical attention to the fragments and the works the thinkers offered, each in his or her day.
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