What is Alexandre Koyré?
{{Infobox philosopher |region = [[Western philosophy]] |era = [[20th-century philosophy]] |image = |name = Alexandre Koyré |birth_date = 29 August 1892 |birth_place = [[Taganrog]], [[Russian Empire]] |death_date = {{d-da|28 April 1964|29 August 1892}} |death_place = [[Paris]], [[France]] |education = [[University of Göttingen]] (1908–1911)<br>[[Collège de France]] (1912–1913)<br>[[University of Paris]] (1911–1914) |institutions = [[École pratique des hautes études]] (1931–1962)<br>[[Johns Hopkins University]] (1946–?)<br>[[The New School]] (1941) |school_tradition = [[Continental philosophy]]<br>[[Phenomenology (philosophy)|Phenomenology]]<br>[[French historical epistemology]]<ref>José Lopez, ''Society and Its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory and Social Structure'', Bloomsbury Academic, 2003, p. 117.</ref> |main_interests = [[History of science]]<br>[[Philosophy of science]]<br>[[Historical epistemology]] |notable_ideas = Criticism of [[Positivism|positivist]] [[philosophy of science]] |influences = [[E. A. Burtt]], [[Gaston Bachelard]], [[Edmund Husserl]], [[Henri Bergson]], [[Léon Brunschvicg]], [[André Lalande (philosopher)|André Lalande]], [[Victor Delbos]], [[François Picavet]] |influenced = [[Thomas Kuhn]],<ref>[[Thomas S. Kuhn]], ''[[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]''. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1970 (2nd ed.), p. 48.</ref> [[Paul Feyerabend]], [[Alexandre Kojève]], [[Nader El-Bizri]], [[Abdel Rahman Badawi]] }} '''Alexandre Koyré''' ({{IPAc-en|k|w|ɑː|ˈ|r|eɪ}}; {{IPA-fr|kwaʁe|lang}}; 29 August 1892&nbsp;– 28 April 1964), was a [[France|French]] [[philosopher]]. He was born in [[Russia]]. He wrote on the [[history of science|history]], [[philosophy of science]] and [[scientific revolution]]. Koyré was born in [[Taganrog]], [[Russian Empire|Russia]]. He was a [[Jewish]] person. In 1914 he joined the [[French Foreign Legion]] and fought on the Russian front in 1916. During World