Alexandre Koyré
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Alexandre Koyré (1882/1892, Taganrog - April 28, 1964, Paris) was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on history and the philosophy of science.
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Life
Koyré was of Russian descent.
In Göttingen, Germany he collaborated with Edmund Husserl and David Hilbert.
Later he moved to Paris where he was a colleague of Alexandre Kojève, who occasionally replaced him when lecturing on Hegel.
A main focus of Koyré's work was on Galileo Galilei.
Writings (selection)
- La philosophie de Jacob Boehme, Paris, J. Vrin, 1929.
- Introduction à la lecture de Platon, Paris: Gallimard 1994
- From the closed world to the infinite universe, New York : Harper, 1958
Bibliography
- Jean-François Stoffel, Bibliographie d'Alexandre Koyré, Firenze : L.S. Olschki, 2000.
