Background
Engel, Passai was born in 1954 in Aix-en-Provence.
Philosopher of logic: philosopher of mind
Engel, Passai was born in 1954 in Aix-en-Provence.
Ecole Normale Supérieure, University of Paris I and University of California.
Lecturer, Grenoble and Caen Universities. Researcher, Centre Nationale de Recherches Scientifiques.
Pascal Engel is one of the main French analytic philosophers of language and of logic. His publications played a key role in introducing philosophy of mind and the works of Davidson and Dennett to a French audience. His La norme du vrai( ¡989) puts forward an analytic philosophy of logic and defends a realism based upon logical inference and truth and the view that logic determines the ideal normative acceptance conditions of sentences for rational agents.