Ferdinand Alquié

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Ferdinand Alquié (born Carcassonne 1906, died Montpellier 1985) was a French philosopher and member of the Académie française.

He taught at the lycée Louis-le-Grand and at the Sorbonne university. He was an instructor of Gilles Deleuze, who, according to Michael Hardt, charged him of drawing on biology, psychology, and other fields, neglecting philosophy. Deleuze said to his former teacher, "Your other reproach touches me even more. Because I believe entirely in the specificity of philosophy and I owe this conviction to you yourself."^{[citation needed]} Alquié also directed Deleuze's secondary thesis, "Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza." He has published many books about Descartes, Kant and Spinoza. He was close to André Breton and wrote Philosophy and Surrealism.

He has often been considered as opposed to Martial Gueroult especially during a polemic about Descartes and also about Spinoza.