François Picavet (17 May 1851, Petit-Fayt,

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– 23 May 1921,

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) was a

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and authority on

Kant Immanuel Kant (, , ; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German Philosophy, philosopher and one of the central Age of Enlightenment, Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemolo ...

. He is now best known for an 1891

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, ''Les idéologues'', on the

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and of

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and

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and

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ideas in

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since 1789.

Works

* ''Mémoire sur le scepticisme'' (1884) * ''l'Histoire de la philosophie'', ce qu'elle a été, ce qu'elle peut être (1888) * ''

La Mettrie Julien Offray de La Mettrie (; November 23, 1709 – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his 1747 work '' L'homme machine'' ('' ...

et la critique allemande'' (1888) * ''

Maine de Biran François-Pierre-Gontier de Biran (29 November 176620 July 1824), usually known as Maine de Biran (), was a French philosopher. Life Maine de Biran was born at Bergerac; died at Paris, 16 July, 1824. The name Maine he assumed (some time before ...

de l'an IX à l'an XI'' (1889) * ''Les idéologues. Essai sur l'histoire des idées et des théories scientifiques, philosophiques, religieuses, etc. en France depuis 1789'' (1891
online text
reprinted 1971 by Burt Franklin

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