Émile Meyerson

Émile Meyerson

Full name	Émile Meyerson
Born	12 February 1859 Lublin, Kingdom of Poland
Died	2 December 1933 Paris, France
Era	20th century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Epistemological realism
Main interests	History and philosophy of science, epistemology, theory of general relativity
Notable ideas	Principle of lawfulness, Principle of causality
Influenced by Albert Einstein
Influenced Gaston Bachelard

Emile Meyerson (12 February 1859, Lublin – 2 December 1933, Paris) 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.

Works

• Identité et réalité (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)

External links

• The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy