Edouard Le Roy
Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy (born June 18, 1870 in Paris , † November 10, 1954 in Paris) was a French philosopher and mathematician. He advocated a radical conventionalism , according to which scientific laws are not verifiable constructions.
Life
From 1909 Le Roy taught mathematics at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris. In 1921 he became the successor of Henri Bergson at the Collège de France , he was already acting as a substitute from 1914.
In 1919 he was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques and in 1945 a member of the Académie française .
Works
- Sur l'intégration des equations de chaleur (1898)
- Science et philosophy (1899)
- Dogme et critique (1907)
- A new Philosophy: Henri Bergson ( Une philosophie nouvelle: Henri Bergson , 1912)
- What is a dogma? (1918)
- Qu'est-ce-que la Science ?: réponse à André Metz (1926)
- L'Exigence idéaliste et le fait de l'évolution (1927)
- Les Origines humaines et l'évolution de l'intelligence (1928)
- La pensée intuitive. The problem of Dieu (1929)
- Introduction à l'étude duprobleme religieux (1944)
- Discours de reception (1946)
- Essai d'une philosophie première (1956)
- Bergson et Bergsonisme (1947)
- Essai d'une philosophie première: l'exigence idéaliste et l'exigence morale , 2 vols., Published posthumously (1956–1958)
literature
- Albert Raffelt : Le Roy, Édouard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 1525-1529.
Web links
- Literature by and about Édouard Le Roy in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Roy, Édouard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Le Roy, Édouard Louis Emmanuel Julien (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 1954 |
| Place of death | Paris |