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During his lifetime, Henri Poincaré published three major philosophical books which achieved great success: La science et l'hypothèse (1902), La valeur de la science (1905) and Science et méthode (1908). After his death, a fourth volume of his philosophical works was published by his heirs as Dernières pensées (1913). Around 1919, Gustave Le Bon wrote to Poincaré's widow. As the director of the Bibliothèque de Philosophie Scientifique at Flammarion, he asked her permission to publish a second posthumous volume. L'Opportunisme scientifique was intended to be the fifth and final volume of Poincaré's philosophical writings. Louis Rougier had elaborated the project, with the collaboration of Gustave Le Bon, and the approval of the philosopher Émile Boutroux and his son Pierre. Because of the reservations of the mathematician's heirs, this book was never published and Dernières pensées remained his last philosophical book. The aim of this book is to restore Rougier's project while throwing some light on its history and the early posterity of Poincaré's philosophical thinking. English / French
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