Arnold Reymond
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Arnold Reymond (1874–1958) was a Swiss theologian, philosopher (logician) and historian of science.
Life
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Reymond received a doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1908; his thesis on the history of ideas of the infinite, Logique et mathématiques, was reviewed by Bertrand Russell in Mind.[1] Reymond taught at the University of Neuchâtel from 1912 to 1925, where he taught and influenced Jean Piaget.[2] In 1925 he took up a chair at the University of Lausanne.[3]
Works
[edit]- Logique et mathématiques: essai historique et critique sur le nombre infini, Saint-Blaise: Foyer Solidariste, 1908
- Histoire des sciences exactes et naturelles dans l'Antiquité gréco-romaine, Paris: 1924. Translated as History of the sciences in Greco-Roman antiquity, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1927[4]
- Les penseurs de la Grèce; histoire de la philosophie antique, 1928
- Les principes de la logique et la critique contemporaine, 1932
- Philosophie spiritualiste; études et méditations, recherches critiques, 1942
- L'Histoire des sciences et la philosophie des sciences, 1949
References
[edit]- ^ Bertrand Russell, Mind 18 (April 1909), p.299-301
- ^ Fernando Vidal, Piaget before Piaget, 1994, p.123
- ^ The collected papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 6, p.60
- ^ Smith, David Eugene (1927). "Reymond on Science in Antiquity". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 33 (6): 783–784. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1927-04480-9.
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