hoenen

Petrus Hubertus Jacobus Hoenen, S. J.

Peter Hoenen (1880–?) was a Dutch Jesuit priest (indicated by S. I. – Societas Iesu, or S.J. in English), philosopher, and academic.

Academic Background

Before delving deeply into philosophy, Hoenen acquired a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Leiden in 1912. This gave him a strong foundation in the exact sciences.

Role

He served as a Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, a prominent institution for Catholic theological and philosophical studies.

Key Contributions

Hoenen is recognized for blending an understanding of mathematics, physics, and rigorous formal logic with the scholastic philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He proposed an original phenomenological theory of judgment in his epistemology.

Notable Works

• Recherches de logique formelle (1947)
• Reality and Judgment According to St. Thomas (1952)
• De noetica geometriae origine theoriae cognitionis (1954): “On the noetic origin of the theory of knowledge of geometry.” “Noetica” refers to the philosophical study of thought and intellect, rooted in Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions.
• Cosmologia (1956)