Georges Canguilhem

Georges Canguilhem
Born(1904-06-04)4 June 1904
Died11 September 1995(1995-09-11) (aged 91)
Academic background
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure, University of Paris[1]
InfluencesKurt Goldstein, Claude Bernard, Henri Bergson, Gaston Bachelard, Alain
Academic work
Era20th-century philosophy
Region: Western philosophy
School or traditionContinental philosophy
French historical epistemology[2]
Anti-positivism
Doctoral studentsMichel Foucault, Gilbert Simondon
Notable studentsFrançois Dagognet
Main interestsHistory and philosophy of science, historical epistemology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of medicine
Notable ideasRevival of vitalism, dispositif
InfluencedAlain 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).

  1. ^ At the time, the ENS was part of the University of Paris according to the decree of 10 November 1903.
  2. ^ E. Reck (ed.), The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy, Springer, 2016: ch. 2.1.
  3. ^ 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.