Philippe Devaux (1902–1979) was a French-speaking Belgian philosopher and logician, professor at the

University of Liège The University of Liège (french: Université de Liège), or ULiège, is a major public university of the French Community of Belgium based in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. Its official language is French. As of 2020, ULiège is ranked in the 301 ...

. Through his numerous works and translations (he was the translator and friend of

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...

), he played a great part in the development of analytic philosophy in French-speaking countries. After a first study devoted to the philosophy of Samuel Alexander in 1929, Philippe Devaux was appointed as a FNRS research associate in Belgium, and then for two-year as an advanced fellow at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

, where he studied with

Alfred North Whitehead Alfred North Whitehead (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He is best known as the defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which today has found applicat ...

. After becoming professor at the University of Liège, he also taught at the universities of Brussels, Manchester, Hull and London.

Paul Gochet Paul Gochet (21 March 1932 – 21 June 2011) was a Belgian logician, philosopher, and emeritus professor of the University of Liège. His research was mainly in the fields of logic and analytic philosophy. He is perhaps best known for his works on ...

was his student and assistant in Liège.

Bibliography

Personal Works

* ''Le Système d'Alexander : Exposé critique d'une théorie néo-réaliste du changement'', Vrin, 1929. * ''Bertrand Russell ou la Paix dans la Vérité'', Paris, Seghers, 1967. * ''De Thalès à Bergson : Introduction historique à la Philosophie européenne'', Liège, Sciences et Lettres, 1949. * ''La cosmologie de Whitehead'', tome I :
L'Epistémologie whiteheadienne
', Louvain-la-Neuve, Chromatika, 2007.

French Translations

* A. N. Whitehead, ''Le Devenir de la religion''. * A. N. Whitehead, ''La Fonction de la raison et autres essais''. * B. Russell, ''La Méthode scientifique en philosophie : notre connaissance du monde extérieur''. * B. Russell, ''Signification et vérité''. * B. Russell, ''L’analyse de la matière''. * B. Russell, ''De la dénotation, l'âge de la science''. * (with N. Thyssen-Rutten) K. Popper, ''La logique de la découverte scientifique''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Devaux, Philippe 1902 births 1979 deaths Harvard Fellows University of California, Berkeley people Academic staff of the University of Liège 20th-century Belgian philosophers Belgian expatriates in the United States