Émile Meyerson Philosopher

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. Meyerson was educated in Germany and studied chemistry under Robert Wilhelm Bunsen. In 1882 Meyerson settled in Paris. He served as foreign editor of the Havas news agency, 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.

Personal facts

Birth dateFebruary 12, 1859
Birth place
Lublin , Congress Poland
Date of deathDecember 02, 1933
Place of death
Paris , France
Era
20th-century philosophy
Main interest
Epistemology
General relativity
History and philosophy of science

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influenced
influenced by
philosophical school
Epistemological realism
region
Western philosophy

Émile Meyerson on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.iep.utm.edu/m/meyerson.htm