François Picavet (17 May 1851, Petit-Fayt,

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– 23 May 1921,

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) was a French

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and authority on

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

. He is now best known for an 1891

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, ''Les idéologues'', on the

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and of scientific theories,

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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 in Bergerac. He assumed the name Maine (sometime before 1787) from his father's esta ...

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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