Gilles-Gaston Granger

Gilles-Gaston[2] Granger (/ɡrɑːnˈʒeɪ/; 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.
Born	28 January 1920 Paris
Died	24 August 2016 (96 years)
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy[1]
Institutions	Collège de France (1986–1990)
Main interests	Philosophical logic, philosophy of science, epistemology
Notable ideas	Philosophy of style
Influences Jean Cavaillès, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Influenced Jules Vuillemin, Jacques Bouveresse

Work

His works discuss the philosophy of logic, mathematics, human and social sciences, Aristotle, Jean Cavaillès, 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

• Studied at École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Associate in philosophy, bachelor in mathematics, doctorate in philosophy.
• 1947–1953: Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
• 1953–1955: Associate professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
• 1955–1962: Professor at the University of Rennes.
• 1962–1964: Director of the École Normale Supérieure d'Afrique Centrale, in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
• 1964–1986: Professor at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• 1986: Professor at the Collège de France. Chair of Comparative Epistemology.
• 1990: Professor emeritus of the Collège de France.
• 2000: Invited professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.[6]

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.

External links

• Gilles Gaston Granger. "La contradiction", Travaux du Centre de Recherches Sémiologiques, 57, p. 39–53, 1988 (in French)
• Biography, list of works, on the site of the Collège de France (in French)
• Bibliographie (in French)
• Lacour, Philippe. Gilles-Gaston Granger et la critique de la raison symbolique (in French)
• Lacour, Philippe. Le concept d'histoire dans la philosophie de Gilles-Gaston Granger (in French)