Alfred Victor Espinas (23 May 1844 - 24 February 1922) was a French thinker. He was a
student of
Comte and
Spencer. Although initially an adherent of
positivism, he later became a committed
realist.
Works
- Des sociétés animales (1877)
- Les origines de la technologie (1897)
- La philosophie sociale an XVIIIe siècle et la Revolution (1898)
- Descartes et la morale: Etudes sur l'histoire de la philosophie de l'action (1925)
