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Georges Canguilhem | |
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Born | |
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).