FOUILLEE, ALFRED JULES EMILE French philosopher, was born at La Poueze on Oct. 18, 1838. From 1864 he was successively professor of philosophy at the lycees of Douai, Montpellier and Bordeaux, and from 1872 to 1875 at the Ecole Normale. Great success attended his early works La Philosophie de Platon (1869), La Philosophie de Sarate (1874), Hist. de la Phil. (1875) and La Liberte et le determinisme (1883). Fouillee's philosophy is a speculative eclecticism. He endeavours to reconcile metaphysical idealism with the istic and mechanical standpoint of science by means of his idees f orces. In L'Evolutionnisme des idees-f orces (1890), La Psy chologie des ideas- f orces (1893) , and La Morale des idees- f orces (1907), he elaborates his doctrine of idees- f orces, or of mind as efficient cause through the tendency of ideas to realize themselves in appropriate movement.
See A. Guyon, La Phil. et la Sociol. d' A. Fouillee (1g13)