MEYERSON, Émile. - Polish thinker, b. in Lublin in 1859, d. in Paris on 4 Dec. 1933. He carried out all his activity in France, devoted to the philosophy of science.

Principal works: Identité et réalité (Paris 1908); De l'explication dans les sciences (2 vols., ibid. 1922); La déduction relativiste (ibid. 1925); Du cheminement de la pensée (3 vols., ibid. 1931); Réel et déterminisme dans la physique quantique (ibid. 1937). Against positivism, M. defended the ontological and explanatory value of science, which does not stop at the mere enunciation of laws, but also applies the principle of causality, enunciating the permanence in time of a reality that remains unchanged beneath apparent becoming. This rationalization of the real, however, can never be complete, given the existence of the irrational, irreducible to the schema of pure mechanism.

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BIBL.: A. Metz, Qu'est-ce que la science? La réponse d'E. M. (Cahiers de la nouvelle journée, 5), Paris 1926, pp. 97-128; D. Parodi, Du cheminement de la pensée selon M., in Rev. de mét. et mor., 39 (1932), pp. 387-415; M. A. Denti, Scienza e filosofia in M., Florence 1940; F. Amerio, Epistemologia, Brescia 1948, pp. 369-72 (bibl.).

Filippo Selvaggi

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