Émile Meyerson
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| Born | 12 February 1859 |
| Died | 2 December 1933 (aged 74) |
| Alma mater | University of Heidelberg |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | French historical epistemology[1] Epistemological realism Neo-Kantianism[2] |
Main interests | History and philosophy of science, epistemology, general relativity |
Notable ideas | Principle of lawfulness,[3] principle of causality[3] |
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Émile Meyerson (French: [mɛjɛʁsɔn]; 12 February 1859 – 2 December 1933) was a Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science. Meyerson was born in Lublin, Poland. He died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 74.
Biography[]
Meyerson was educated at the University of Heidelberg and studied chemistry under Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. In 1882 Meyerson settled in Paris. He served as foreign editor of the , and later as the director of the Jewish Colonization Association for Europe and Asia Minor. He became a naturalized French citizen after World War I.
Thomas Kuhn cites Meyerson's work as influential while developing the ideas for his main work The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.[5]
In La Déduction relativiste, Meyerson expressed the view that Einstein's general theory of relativity was a new version of the identification of matter with space, which he considered "the postulate upon which the whole (Cartesian) system rests."[6]
Works[]
- Identité et réalité (1908)
- De l'explication dans les sciences, 2 vols. (1921)
- La déduction relativiste (1925)
- Du cheminement de la pensée, 3 vols. (1931)
- Réel et déterminisme dans la physique quantique (1933)
- Essais (1936)
See also[]
Notes[]
- ^ Donald Broady, "The epistemological tradition in French sociology", 1996.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c M. Anthony Mills, "Identity versus determinism: Émile Meyerson׳s neo-Kantian interpretation of the quantum theory", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics' 47:33–49 (2014).
- ^ Jump up to: a b Émile Meyerson – The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ^ Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970 (2nd ed.), p. 44.
- ^ Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition, University of Chicago Press, 2012, p. xl.
- ^ Quoted in Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Revolt against Dualism: An Inquiry Concerning the Existence of Ideas (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1996), p. 5; Lovejoy's translation [orig. publ. 1930].
External links[]
- Miguel Espinoza, "Meyerson, Physics and the Intelligibility of Nature"
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- 1859 births
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- 19th-century French chemists
- Epistemologists
- Philosophers of science
- 20th-century French philosophers
- Polish emigrants to France
- French Zionists
- 19th-century Polish Jews
- Jewish philosophers
- French male writers
- French philosopher stubs