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Georges Canguilhem | |
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| Born | 4 June 1904 |
| Died | 11 September 1995 (aged 91) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure, University of Paris[1] |
| Influences | Kurt Goldstein, Claude Bernard, Henri Bergson, Gaston Bachelard, Alain |
| Academic work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy Region: Western philosophy |
| School or tradition | Continental philosophy French historical epistemology[2] Anti-positivism |
| Doctoral students | Michel Foucault, Gilbert Simondon |
| Notable students | François Dagognet |
| Main interests | History and philosophy of science, historical epistemology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of medicine |
| Notable ideas | Revival of vitalism, dispositif |
| Influenced | Alain Badiou, Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, François Dagognet, Michel Foucault, Dominique Lecourt, Louis Althusser, Jacques-Alain Miller, Arnold Davidson |
Georges Canguilhem (/kɑːŋɡɪˈlɛm/; French: [kɑ̃ɡijɛm, kɑ̃ɡilɛm]; 4 June 1904 – 11 September 1995)[3] was a French philosopher and physician who specialized in epistemology and the philosophy of science (in particular, biology).
- ^ At the time, the ENS was part of the University of Paris according to the decree of 10 November 1903.
- ^ E. Reck (ed.), The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy, Springer, 2016: ch. 2.1.
- ^ Pierre Cassou-Noguès (3 September 2014). "The Philosophy of the Concept". In Leonard Lawlor (ed.). Phenomenology: Responses and Developments. Taylor & Francis. p. 217. ISBN 9781317546900.