Prof. J. Chevalier

Abstract

PROF. JACQUES CHEVALIER, dean of the Faculty of Letters and professor of philosophy in the University of Grenoble, is to deliver a series of lectures in London, Cambridge and the north of England. He will speak at the Aquinas Society (Lecture Hall, Inner Temple) on Tuesday, October 24, at 8 p.m. on the “Revival of Realism in French Philosophy”. On Wednesday, October 25, he will be the guest of honour at a luncheon given by the Philosophical Society at the Lyceum Club. On Thursday, October 26, at 5.30 p.m. he will lecture on “Descartes” at University College, Gower Street, London; and on the following Saturday at 3 p.m. he will speak on the “Problem of Survival” at the Institut Frangais (3 Cromwell Gardens, S.W.7). Prof. Chevalier has many friends in England where he has often been at the invitation of the Universities of Oxford and of London or as a delegate to learned congresses. His first visit in England was in 1904, when he came over to study, returning to France with a remarkable monograph on the religious revival in Wales. This brilliant work, with which he began his philosophical career, was soon followed by a penetrating study on the notion of necessity in Aristotle's philosophy. But he is better known in Great Britain by his three monographs on Descartes, Pascal and Bergson, which he has written since he has held the chair of philosophy in the University of Grenoble. He shows how their doctrines affect present-day problems, and gives an original interpretation of them.