Émile Meyerson

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Émile Meyerson (February 12, 1859 – December 2, 1933) was Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science. Emile 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.

[edit] Works

• Identité et réalite (1908)
• De lexplication dans les sciences, 2 Vols. (1921)
• La déduction relativiste (1925)
• Du cheminement de la pensée, 3 Vols. (1931)
• Réel et déterminisme dans la physique quantique (1933)
• Essais (1936)

[edit] External links

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy