Étienne Gilson

Étienne Henri Gilson French: ; 13 June 1884 – 19 September 1978 was a French philosopher together with historian of philosophy. a scholar of medieval philosophy, he originally specialised in the thought of Descartes; he also philosophized in the tradition of Thomas Aquinas, although he did not consider himself a Neo-Thomist philosopher. In 1946 he attained the distinction of being elected an "Immortal" bit of the Académie française. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Publications

Gilson's "Painting as well as Reality" 1957, was also published in English.