Philippe Devaux was a French-speaking Belgian philosopher and logician, professor at the University of Liège

University of Liège

The University of Liège , in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French.-History:...

. Through his numerous works and translations (he was the translator and friend of Russell

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...

), he played a great part in the development of analytic philosophy in French-speaking countries.

After a first study devoted to the philosophy of Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander OM was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.-Early life:...

 in 1929, Philippe Devaux was appointed as a FNRS research associate in Belgium, and then for two year as an advanced fellow at the Berkeley and Harvard

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 Universities, where he studied with Whitehead. After becoming professor at the University of Liège, he also taught at the universities of Brussels, Manchester, Hull and London. Paul Gochet

Paul Gochet

Paul Gochet was a Belgian logician and philosopher, emeritus professor of the University of Liège. His research is mainly in the fields of logic and analytic philosophy. He is now best known for his works on Quine's philosophy....

was his student and assistant in Liège.

Personal Works

• Le Système d'Alexander : Exposé critique d'une théorie néo-réaliste du changement, Vrin, 1929.
• Bertrand Russell ou la Paix dans la Vérité, Paris, Seghers, 1967.
• De Thalès à Bergson : Introduction historique à la Philosophie européenne, Liège, Sciences et Lettres, 1949.
• La cosmologie de Whitehead, tome I : L'Epistémologie whiteheadienne, Louvain-la-Neuve, Chromatika, 2007.

French Translations

• A. N. Whitehead, Le devenir de la religion.
• A. N. Whitehead, La fonction de la raison et autres essais.
• B. Russell, La Méthode scientifique en philosophie : notre connaissance du monde extérieur.
• B. Russell, Signification et vérité.
• B. Russell, L’analyse de la matière.
• B. Russell, De la dénotation, l'âge de la science.
• (with N. Thyssen-Rutten) K. Popper, La logique de la découverte scientifique.