Yvon Belaval

Yvon Belaval

Yvon Belaval (Sète, 1908-1988) was a French philosopher of the twentieth century and a historian of philosophy specializing in modern times Yvon Belaval had mixed crafts, such as marine or controller of customs, before achieving the aggregation of philosophy in 1941. He was at the CNRS between 1951 and 1955. He received his doctorate in letters, with text Leibniz critique of Descartes (1960). It had been a school teacher in Mansy and Lakanal; then taught at the Universities of Strasbourg and Lille, and later in Paris at the Sorbonne from 1965. It reached the positions of Secretary General of Institut International de Philosophie, and vice-president of the Leibniz-Gesellschaft, the largest company focused on the German thinker