Émile Boutroux
Émile Boutroux | |
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| Born | Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux 28 July 1845 |
| Died | 22 November 1921 (aged 76) Paris, France |
| Education | |
| Education | École normale supérieure Heidelberg University University of Paris (Ph.D., 1874) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jules Lachelier Félix Ravaisson |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | French spiritualism |
| Institutions | University of Nancy University of Paris |
| Doctoral students | Victor Delbos |
| Main interests | Philosophy of religion |
| Notable ideas | Religion and science as compatible The contingent character of the laws of nature |
Étienne Émile Marie Boutroux (/buːˈtruː/; French: [butʁu]; 28 July 1845 – 22 November 1921) was a French philosopher of science and a historian of philosophy. He was a firm opponent of materialism in science. He was a spiritualist philosopher who defended the idea that religion and science are compatible at a time when the power of science was rising inexorably. His work is overshadowed in the English-speaking world by that of the more celebrated Henri Bergson. He was elected membership of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques in 1898 and in 1912 to the Académie française.