About François Pillon
Lived 1830 – 1914 (aged 84). François Pillon was a French philosopher.
François Thomas Pillon (7 March 1830, Fontaines, Yonne – 9 December 1914, Paris) was a French philosopher.
Pillon was associated with the neo-critical school. He collaborated with Charles Bernard Renouvier in publishing the Critique philosophique and Critique religieuse. He founded the journal L'Année philosophique, and edited it from 1890 to 1913.
Pillon was the dedicatee of William James's Principles of Psychology.
Works La Philosophie de Charles Secrétan (1898) (with Renouvier) a translation of Hume's Treatise on Human Nature
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French philosopher (1830-1914)
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François Pillon was born on 7 March 1830 in Fontaines.
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François Pillon died on 9 December 1914 in Paris.
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François Pillon was a philosopher.
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