Henk Visser
Henk Visser (Leeuwarden, 1939) studied insurance mathematics and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and started his career as a teacher of mathematics and music.
In 1975 he started working as an assistant professor of Analytic Method at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Department of Philosophy. From 1976 until 1985, he worked at the same department as an associate professor of analytic method.
He continued his career at Tilburg University as an assistant professor of Philosophy of the Information Sciences (1985-1989). In 1987 he defended his PhD thesis ‘Logical Analysis and Ontological Reconstruction - Two programs in the Analytic Tradition.’. From 1989 until 2000 he held a position at the University of Tilburg as an associate professor of General Philosophy of Science and Epistemology.
In 1991 Visser also became professor of Humanistic Views on Man and Computer at Maastricht University, Department of Knowledge Technology, where he worked until his retirement in 2004. During his scientific career, he published in scienentific journals such as Mind, Zeitschrift für Semiotik and Synthese. He was also co-author and co-editor of scientific books.
From 1999 until 2012 he has been president of the Evert Willem Beth Foundation.
In his personal life, classical music always played a major role and Henk Visser plays the violin from the age of eleven. Ever since high school he composes chess problems. Furthermore, Visser also painted as a high school student and he picked up painting again after his retirement. During his professorship, Henk Visser became interested in creative solutions to mathematical problems and later on also in problems of music theory. Results of the above activities can be found on this website.