Émile Meyerson is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Émile Meyerson as Polish-born French epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science.
Émile Meyerson was born at Lublin in 1859. His recorded nationality is France.
The nineteenth century produced systems on a grand scale, and then the reaction against them.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Knight of the Legion of Honour.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Émile Meyerson died in 1933, aged 74. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Fields: philosophy
