Gaston Milhaud

Samuel Gaston Milhaud ( born August 10, 1858 in Nîmes, † October 1, 1918 in Paris) was a French philosopher of science and historians of science.

Work

Milhaud was a high school teacher until 1909, later professor of philosophy in Le Havre and Montpellier. Since 1909 he was a professor of philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the Department of " philosophy and their relationships to the exact sciences ," which was set up especially for him. Milhaud was one of a group of scientists, which empirical studies and the widespread in France positivism largely rejected. The spontaneity of the mind is for him in the forefront of his considerations. In his opinion carries only a fixed orientation on basic mathematical principles to absolute certainty. With his mind Milhaud was one of the founders of conventionalism.

He is a neo-Kantian and is attributed to the Neokritizismus

Works ( selection)

  • Leçons sur le origines de la science grecque, Paris 1893
  • Essai sur le et les conditions de la certitude limtes logique, Paris 1984
  • Les philosophes - géomètres de la Grèce. Plato et it prédéceseurs, Paris 1900
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