François Pillon

François Thomas Pillon (7 March 1830, Fontaines, Yonne – 9 December 1914, Paris) [1] was a French philosopher.

This article is about French philosopher. For Canadian politician and MP, see François Pilon.

Pillon was associated with the neo-critical school. He collaborated with Charles Bernard Renouvier in publishing the Critique philosophique and Critique religieuse. He founded the journal L'Année philosophique, and edited it from 1890 to 1913.[2]

Pillon was the dedicatee of William James's Principles of Psychology.[2]

Works
  • La Philosophie de Charles Secrétan (1898)
  • (with Renouvier) a translation of Hume's Treatise on Human Nature

References
  1. Revue Philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger T. 79 (JANVIER A JUIN 1915), pp. 95–96. Reprinted by JSTOR
  2. A. Lalande, 'Philosophy in France in 1915', The Philosophical Review 25:4 (1916), pp. 541–542. Reprinted by JSTOR


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