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Émile Meyerson

Émile Meyerson
Born 12 February 1859
Lublin, Kingdom of Poland
Died 2 December 1933 (1933-12-03) (aged 74)
Paris, France
Alma mater University of Heidelberg
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School French historical epistemology
Epistemological realism
Main interests
History and philosophy of science, epistemology, general relativity
Notable ideas
Principle of lawfulness, principle of causality

Émile Meyerson (French: [mɛjɛʁsɔn]; 12 February 1859 – 2 December 1933) was a Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science. Meyerson was born in Lublin, Poland. He died in his sleep of a heart attack at the age of 74.

Meyerson was educated at the University of Heidelberg 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.

In La Déduction relativiste, Meyerson expressed the view that Einstein's general theory of relativity was a new version of the identification of matter with space, which he considered "the postulate upon which the whole (Cartesian) system rests."



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