Gilles-Gaston GrangerUsually 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.] (; ; 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 authoritativeGallimard had published a first translation by Pierre Klossowski but later published Granger's translation. 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.Bibliography. He was president of the scientific committee of Jules Vuillemin's Archives.Jules Vuillemin's Archives.
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.Gilles Gaston Granger, "Rationalité et raisonnement", Université de tous les savoirs, 1, p. 215–222, Editions Odile Jacob, Paris, 2000.
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)Excerpts on Google Books. 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
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 d'''histoire dans la philosophie de Gilles-Gaston Granger''