GEULINCX, ARNOLD (1624–I 669), Belgian philosopher, was born at Antwerp on Jan. 31, 1624. After studying and lec turing at Louvain, he became a Protestant, and in 1663, was made lecturer at the university of Leiden where he died in Nov. 1669.
His philosophical works, edited by J. P. N. Land (1891-93) , in clude the more important Metaphysica vera (1691), the rvwec ieavrhv, sive Ethica (under the pseudonym "Philaretus," 1675), Physica vera (1688), Logica restituta (1662) and Annotata in Principia philosophiae R. Cartesii (1691).
See J. P. N. Land, Arnold Geulincx and seine Philosophie V. van der Haeghen, Geulincx. Etude sur sa vie, sa philosophie, et ses ouvrages (Ghent, 1886) ; E. Grimm, A. Geulincx' Erkenntnisstheorie and Occasionalismus (1875) ; E. Pfleiderer, A. G. als Hauptvertreter der okkasionalistischen Metaphysik and Ethik (1882) ; G. Samtleben, Geulincx, ein V organger Spinozas (1885) ; G. Monchamp, Hist. du Cartesianisme en Belgique (Brussels, 1886) .