In the history of science, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Étienne Bonnot de Condillac as French academic.
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was born at Grenoble in 1714. His recorded nationality is France.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
He worked as philosopher, economist and psychologist.
Science advances when somebody insists on measuring what everyone else assumed.
His recorded fields of work are philosophy.
That the work was done from France matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac died in 1780, aged 66. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Worked as philosopher, economist and psychologist
