Gilles-Gaston Granger
Gilles Gaston Granger at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris, 2000.
Born	28 January 1920 Paris
Died	24 August 2016 (2016-08-25) (aged 96)
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy[1]
Institutions	Collège de France (1986–1990)
Main interests	Philosophical logic, philosophy of science, epistemology
Notable ideas	Philosophy of style

Gilles-Gaston^[2] Granger (/ɡrɑːnˈʒeɪ/; French: [ɡʁɑ̃ʒe]; 28 January 1920 – 24 August 2016) was a French philosopher.

Work

His works discuss the philosophy of logic, mathematics, human and social sciences, Aristotle, Jean Cavaillès, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

He produced the most authoritative^[3] French translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and published more than 150 scientific articles.^[4]

In 1968 he co-founded with Jules Vuillemin the journal L'Âge de la Science.^[4] He was president of the scientific committee of Jules Vuillemin's Archives.^[5]

Biography

• Studied at École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. Associate in philosophy, bachelor in mathematics, doctorate in philosophy.
• 1947–1953: Professor at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
• 1953–1955: Associate professor at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).
• 1955–1962: Professor at the University of Rennes.
• 1962–1964: Director of the École Normale Supérieure d'Afrique Centrale, in Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo.
• 1964–1986: Professor at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.
• 1986: Professor at the Collège de France. Chair of Comparative Epistemology.
• 1990: Professor emeritus of the Collège de France.
• 2000: Invited professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.^[6]

Works

• Méthodologie économique (PUF, 1955)
• La raison (1955)
• La mathématique sociale du marquis de Condorcet (PUF, 1956)
• Pensée formelle et sciences de l'homme (Aubier, 1960)
  • Formal Thought and the Sciences of Man, translation by Alexander Rosenberg (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1983)^[7]
• Essai d'une philosophie du style (Armand Colin, 1968)
• Wittgenstein (Seghers, 1969)
• La théorie aristotélicienne de la science (Aubier, 1976)
• Langage et épistémologie (Klincksieck, 1979)
• Pour la connaissance philosophique (Odile Jacob, 1988)
• Invitation à la lecture de Wittgenstein (Alinéa, 1990)
• La vérification (Odile Jacob, 1992)
• Le probable, le possible et le virtuel (Odile Jacob, 1995)
• L'irrationnel (Odile Jacob, 1998)
• La pensée de l'espace (Odile Jacob, 1999)