Born on February 15, 1920. Died on January 16, 2001.
Education and Professional Career
- 1937–1938: Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris)
- 1939–1943: École normale supérieure (Paris)
- 1943: Agrégation in Philosophy
- 1943–1944: Teacher at the Lycée Victor-Hugo in Besançon
- 1944–1950: National Center for Scientific Research
- 1948: Awarded a doctorate with a dissertation on *Being and Work*
- 1950–1962: Professor at the University of Clermont-Ferrand
- 1962–1990: Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair of Philosophy of Knowledge