Revue de métaphysique et de morale
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The Revue de métaphysique et de morale is a French philosophy journal co-founded in 1893 by Léon Brunschvicg, Xavier Léon
and Élie Halévy
. The journal initially appeared six times a year, but since 1920 has been published quarterly. It was the leading French-language journal for philosophical debates at the 20th century, hosting articles by Victor Delbos
, Bergson, etc., and still exists today.
Xavier Léon served as the first editor of the journal until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by Dominique Parodi. On Parodi's death in 1955, the journal was headed by Jean Wahl
.
It published in 1906 Bertrand Russell
's article on the Berry paradox
, as well as articles by Louis Bachelier
, the logicist Jean Nicod
, the mathematician Henri Poincaré
, Félix Ravaisson, Célestin Bouglé
, Henri Delacroix
(concerning William James
), Louis Couturat
, Sully Prudhomme
, Henri Maldiney, Francine Bloch, Frédéric Rauh, Jean Cavaillès
, Julien Benda
, Georges Poyer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
, Georg Simmel
, etc. More recently: Barbara Cassin
, etc.
)
Xavier Léon
Xavier Léon was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.In 1893 Léon – together with Élie Halévy and others – helped found the French philosophical journal Revue de métaphysique et de morale. Léon remained editor of the journal until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by Dominique...
and Élie Halévy
Élie Halévy
Élie Halévy was a French philosopher and historian who wrote studies of the British utilitarians, a history of 19th-century England and the acclaimed book of essays, Era of Tyrannies.-Biography:...
. The journal initially appeared six times a year, but since 1920 has been published quarterly. It was the leading French-language journal for philosophical debates at the 20th century, hosting articles by Victor Delbos
Victor Delbos
Victor Delbos was a Catholic philosopher and historian of philosophy.Delbos was appointed a lecturer at the Sorbonne in 1902. In 1911 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. He died in July 1916 as a result of an infectious mycocarditis brought on by pleurisy...
, Bergson, etc., and still exists today.
Xavier Léon served as the first editor of the journal until his death in 1935, when he was succeeded by Dominique Parodi. On Parodi's death in 1955, the journal was headed by Jean Wahl
Jean Wahl
Jean André Wahl was a French philosopher.-Early career:He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1936 to 1967, broken by World War II. He was in the U.S...
.
It published in 1906 Bertrand 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...
's article on the Berry paradox
Berry paradox
The Berry paradox is a self-referential paradox arising from the expression "the smallest possible integer not definable by a given number of words". Bertrand Russell, the first to discuss the paradox in print, attributed it to G. G...
, as well as articles by Louis Bachelier
Louis Bachelier
-External links:** Louis Bachelier webpage at the Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon / France. Text in French.** also from Index Funds Advisors, this discussion of...
, the logicist Jean Nicod
Jean Nicod
Jean George Pierre Nicod was a French philosopher and logician.In his best known work, he showed that the classical propositional calculus could be derived from one axiom and one rule, both expressed using the Sheffer stroke...
, the mathematician Henri Poincaré
Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and a philosopher of science...
, Félix Ravaisson, Célestin Bouglé
Célestin Bouglé
Célestin Bouglé was a French philosopher known for his role as one of Émile Durkheim's collaborators and a member of the Annee Sociologique.-Life:...
, Henri Delacroix
Henri Delacroix
Henri Delacroix was a French psychologist, "one of the most famous and most prolific French psychologists working at the beginning of [the twentieth] century."...
(concerning William James
William James
William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...
), Louis Couturat
Louis Couturat
Louis Couturat was a French logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist.-Life:Born in Ris-Orangis, Essonne, France, he was educated in philosophy and mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure...
, Sully Prudhomme
Sully Prudhomme
René François Armand Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist, winner of the first Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901....
, Henri Maldiney, Francine Bloch, Frédéric Rauh, Jean Cavaillès
Jean Cavailles
Jean Cavaillès , was a French philosopher and mathematician, specialized in philosophy of science. He took part in the French Resistance within the Libération movement and was shot by the Gestapo on February 17, 1944....
, Julien Benda
Julien Benda
Julien Benda was a French philosopher and novelist. He remains famous for his essay The Betrayal of the Intellectuals.- Life :...
, Georges Poyer, Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir...
, Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel was a major German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.Simmel was one of the first generation of German sociologists: his neo-Kantian approach laid the foundations for sociological antipositivism, asking 'What is society?' in a direct allusion to Kant's question 'What is nature?',...
, etc. More recently: Barbara Cassin
Barbara Cassin
Barbara Cassin is a French philologist and philosopher, born in 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt. A past Director at Jacques Derrida's Collège international de philosophie and director of research at the CNRS,. In 2006 she succeeded Jonathan Barnes to the directorship of the leading centre of...
, etc.
Some articles
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)
See also
- Twentieth-century French philosophyTwentieth-century French philosophy20th-century French philosophy is a strand of contemporary philosophy generally associated with post-World War II French thinkers, although it is directly influenced by previous philosophical movements.-Bergson:...
- Wahl's Collège philosophiqueCollège philosophiqueCollège philosophique was an association founded in 1946 by Jean Wahl, located in Paris' Latin Quarter.Wahl created it feeling the lack of a place alternative to the Sorbonne , where it would be possible to give voice to non academic discourses; it became the place where the non-conformist...
, whose lectures where sometimes published in the Revue