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Émile Bréhier
Émile Bréhier (; 12 April 1876, Bar-le-Duc – 3 February 1952, Paris) was a French philosopher. His interest was in classical philosophy, and the history of philosophy. He wrote a "Histoire de la Philosophie", translated into English in seven volumes.
Life.
Bréhier studied at the University of Paris. In 1908 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a dissertation about Philo of Alexandria. From 1910 to 1912 he was Master of Philosophical Conferences at the University of
he started attending philosophical and sociological courses at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Paris (""), where among his teachers were Gaston Bachelard, the epistemologist , the historian of philosophy Henri Bréhier (not to be confused with Émile Bréhier), Henri Gouhier, Jean Wahl, Gustave Guillaume, , and Georges Davy. He submitted a proposal for a doctoral dissertation on mathematical logic to Poirier, but he eventually abandoned the project. The working title of his thesis was "Introduction à la logique axiomatique" ("Introduction