Gilles-Gaston Granger Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Gilles-Gaston Granger
Birth Date:	28 January 1920
Birth Place:	Paris
Alma Mater:	École Normale Supérieure
Institutions:	Collège de France (1986–1990)
School Tradition:	Analytic philosophy^[1]
Influences:	Jean Cavaillès, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Influenced:	Jules Vuillemin, Jacques Bouveresse, Paul Veyne
Notable Ideas:	Philosophy of style

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

Work

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.

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)

External links

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

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]
4. http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/sites/poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/files/users/documents/fichier_page/biblio_vuillemin.pdf Bibliography
5. http://poincare.univ-lorraine.fr/fr/comite-scientifique-des-archives-jules-vuillemin 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. https://books.google.com/books?id=87p9CAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Excerpts