Paul Souriau
French philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Souriau was a French philosopher known for his works on invention theory and aesthetics. Biography He studied at the École normale supérieure where he wrote a doctoral thesis entitled Théorie de l'invention published in 1881. In his thesis, he argues that inventions are not the result of a rigorous scientific method but rather come as a deterministic consequence of a set of conditions in which the inventor lives. This theory was contested very soon after its publication in the 1882 edition of the Revue Internationale de l'Enseignement. The French thesis was created simultaneously with a Latin thesis titled De motus perceptione. The Latin thesis emphasized the importance of vision in movement perception, hence the initial title De visione motus. The thesis was a precursor for his later works on movement perception.
