About François Picavet
Lived 1851 – 1921 (aged 70). François Picavet was a French philosopher and translator.
François Picavet (17 May 1851, Petit-Fayt, Nord – 23 May 1921, Paris) was a French philosopher, translator and authority on Kant.
He is now best known for an 1891 essay, Les idéologues, on the history of ideas and of scientific theories, philosophy and religious and political ideas in France since 1789.
Works Mémoire sur le scepticisme (1884) l'Histoire de la philosophie, ce qu'elle a été, ce qu'elle peut être (1888) La Mettrie et la critique allemande (1888) Maine de Biran de l'an IX à l'an XI (1889) Les idéologues. Essai sur l'histoire des idées et des théories scientifiques, philosophiques, religieuses, etc. en France depuis 1789 (1891) online text , reprinted 1971 by Burt Franklin
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French philosopher
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François Picavet was born on 17 May 1851 in Nord.
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François Picavet died on 23 May 1921 in Paris.
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François Picavet was a philosopher and translator.
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