François Thomas Pillon (7 March 1830,
Fontaines, Yonne – 9 December 1914,
Paris
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)
was a French
philosopher
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.
Pillon was associated with the neo-critical school. He collaborated with
Charles Bernard Renouvier in publishing the ''Critique philosophique'' and ''Critique religieuse''. He founded the journal ''
L'Année philosophique'', and edited it from 1890 to 1913.
Pillon was the dedicatee of
William James
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's ''Principles of Psychology''.
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Works
* ''La Philosophie de Charles Secrétan
Charles Secretan (January 19, 1815 – January 21, 1895) was a Swiss philosopher. He was born on 19 January 1815 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also died on 21 January 1895.
Educated in his native town and later under Friedrich Schelling in M ...
'' (1898)
* (with Renouvier) a translation of Hume
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's ''Treatise on Human Nature''
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1830 births
1914 deaths
19th-century French philosophers
20th-century French philosophers
French male non-fiction writers
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