Alexandre Koyré

Alexandre Koyré
Born	29 August 1892 Taganrog, Russian Empire
Died	28 April 1964 (1964-04-29) (aged 71) Paris, France
Alma mater	University of Göttingen (1908–1911) Collège de France (1912–1913) Sorbonne (1911–1914)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Phenomenology French historical epistemology
Institutions	École pratique des hautes études (1931–1962) Johns Hopkins University (1946–?) The New School (1941)
Main interests	History of science Philosophy of science Historical epistemology
Notable ideas	Criticism of positivist philosophy of science
Influences E. A. Burtt, Gaston Bachelard, Edmund Husserl, Henri-Louis Bergson, Léon Brunschvicg, André Lalande, Victor Delbos, François Picavet
Influenced Thomas Kuhn,Paul Feyerabend, Alexandre Kojève, Nader El-Bizri, Abdel Rahman Badawi

Alexandre Koyré (French: [kwaʁe]; 29 August 1892 – 28 April 1964), also anglicized as Alexandre or Alexander Koyre, was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on the history and philosophy of science.

Koyré was born in the city of Taganrog, Russia on 29 August 1892 into a Jewish family. His original name was Alexandr Vladimirovich Koyre (Александр Владимирович (Вольфович) Койре). In Russia he studied in Tiflis, Rostov-on-Don and Odessa, before pursuing his studies abroad.

At Göttingen, Germany (1908–1911) he studied under Edmund Husserl and David Hilbert. Husserl did not approve of Koyré's dissertation, whereupon Koyré left for Paris, to study at the Collège de France and the Sorbonne during the period 1912–1913 under Bergson, Brunschvicg, Lalande, Delbos and Picavet. Following Husserl's Cartesian Meditations, a series of lectures given in Paris in February 1929 (and one of the more important of Husserl's later works), Koyré met again with Husserl repeatedly.