Philosopher
Émile Boutroux
Overview
Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (; French: [butʁu]; 28 July 1845 – 22 November 1921) was a French philosopher of science and a historian of philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritualist philosopher who defended the idea that religion and science are compatible at a time when the power of science was rising inexorably. His work is overshadowed in the English-speaking world by that of the more celebrated Henri Bergson. He was elected membership of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1898 and in 1912 to the Académie française.
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Philosophers who discussed Émile Boutroux
- Hajime Tanabe
- Léon Brunschvicg
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
- Vladimir Bazarov
- Jules Lachelier
- Maurice Blondel
- Milič Čapek
Ideas Émile Boutroux discusses
- Heidelberg University
- Henri Bergson
- Eduard Zeller
- Materialism
- Paris
- Philosophy of science
- Henri Poincaré
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- University of Paris
- Jules Lachelier
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.