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Gilles-Gaston Granger

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Gilles-Gaston Granger
Gilles Gaston Granger at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris, 2000.
Born28 January 1920
Paris
Died24 August 2016 (2016-08-25) (aged 96)
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAnalytic philosophy[1]
InstitutionsCollège de France (1986–1990)
Main interests
Philosophical logic, philosophy of science, epistemology
Notable ideas
Philosophy of style

Gilles-Gaston[2] Granger (/ɡrɑːnˈʒ/; French: [ɡʁɑ̃ʒe]; 28 January 1920 – 24 August 2016) was a French philosopher.

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Granger at University of São Paulo, 1990

His works discuss the philosophy of logic, mathematics, human and social sciences, Aristotle, Jean Cavaillès, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

He produced the most authoritative[3] French translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and published more than 150 scientific articles.[4]

In 1968 he co-founded with Jules Vuillemin the journal L'Âge de la Science.[4] He was president of the scientific committee of Jules Vuillemin's Archives.[5]

Biography

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Works

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  • Méthodologie économique (PUF, 1955)
  • La raison (1955)
  • La mathématique sociale du marquis de Condorcet (PUF, 1956)
  • Pensée formelle et sciences de l'homme (Aubier, 1960)
    • Formal Thought and the Sciences of Man, translation by Alexander Rosenberg (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1983)[7]
  • Essai d'une philosophie du style (Armand Colin, 1968)
  • Wittgenstein (Seghers, 1969)
  • La théorie aristotélicienne de la science (Aubier, 1976)
  • Langage et épistémologie (Klincksieck, 1979)
  • Pour la connaissance philosophique (Odile Jacob, 1988)
  • Invitation à la lecture de Wittgenstein (Alinéa, 1990)
  • La vérification (Odile Jacob, 1992)
  • Le probable, le possible et le virtuel (Odile Jacob, 1995)
  • L'irrationnel (Odile Jacob, 1998)
  • La pensée de l'espace (Odile Jacob, 1999)

Notes and references

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  1. ^ Alan D. Schrift (2006), Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers, Blackwell Publishing, p. 76.
  2. ^ Usually written "Gilles Gaston" in French. "Gilles" was his alias in the Resistance, which he kept after the war. Claudine Tiercelin, "La mort du philosophe Gilles-Gaston Granger", Le Monde, 5 September 2016.]
  3. ^ Gallimard had published a first translation by Pierre Klossowski but later published Granger's translation.
  4. ^ a b Bibliography.
  5. ^ Jules Vuillemin's Archives.
  6. ^ Gilles Gaston Granger, "Rationalité et raisonnement", Université de tous les savoirs, 1, p. 215–222, Editions Odile Jacob, Paris, 2000.
  7. ^ Excerpts on Google Books.
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