Dr. Anthony "Tony" Tol (11 May 1943, Boskoop - 2 July 2014) served in the Documentation Center of the

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

, the

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, as an archivist for the collection of materials assembled there for 19th Century historical developments in that country. Tol did his undergraduate studies at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and then received his PhD in philosophy under D. H. Th. Vollenhoven, professor of philosophy at Vrije Universiteit. Tony Tol became an active proponent of a method for study of the history of Western philosophy and its systematics, the method which Vollenhoven had empirically built-up by studying 16,000 individual philosophers over the course of theoretical thought in the West. Called by Vollenhoven the Consequent Problem-Historical Method (CPHM), the approach proved fascinating to Tol, who became one of its prime users in his own philosophical research and a theorizer of the development of the philosophical movement which had given it birth. The movement gave rise to the school of thought known as

Reformational philosophy Reformational philosophy of society is a neo-Calvinistic movement pioneered by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven that seeks to develop philosophical thought in a Reformed Christian direction. It is related to the idea of a politi ...

, founded by Vollenhoven and his colleague at Vrije Universiteit, professor of law

Herman Dooyeweerd Herman Dooyeweerd (7 October 1894, Amsterdam – 12 February 1977, Amsterdam) was a professor of law and jurisprudence at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam from 1926 to 1965. He was also a philosopher and principal founder of Reformational phil ...

. Tol, as part of his doctoral dissertation, assembled a critical edition of Vollenhoven's ''Isagôgè''. He has compiled and edited all Vollenhoven's versions to provide a text-critical edition in Dutch. In his ''Philosophy in the Making D. H. Th. Vollenhoven and the Emergence of Reformed Philosophy'' Tol examines the development of a

neo-Calvinist Neo-Calvinism, a form of Dutch Calvinism, is a theological movement initiated by the theologian and former Dutch prime minister Abraham Kuyper. James Bratt has identified a number of different types of Dutch Calvinism: The Seceders, split into ...

philosophy, particularly the part played by Vollenhoven. Tol was the translator of Vollenhoven's recently published 1926 inaugural address''Reformed Epistemology'', Sioux Center: Dordt College Press, 2013.

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at All of Life Redeemed. {{DEFAULTSORT:Tol, Anthony 1943 births 2014 deaths Dutch educators Dutch expatriates in Canada Calvin University alumni Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni People from Boskoop