Gilles-Gaston Granger

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

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

Work

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

Works

  • 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

  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. 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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