Dominique Dubarle (23 September 1907 – 25 April 1987) was a French Dominican friar and religious philosopher, a professor at the Saulchoir.
[1] The college chaplain, Father Beaussart, a future auxiliary bishop of Paris, helped to inspire his religious vocation, which was also influenced by his friendship with a fellow student, Jean Riondet, who died in 1929 before he could join the Dominicans.
[2] Trained in mathematical logic and the epistemology of science, Dubarle later worked along a path traced by Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, on ontology, engaging in dialogue with Hegelian thought, while reflecting on the challenges of contemporary culture.
His thought was of great depth, and he fundamentally rethought the links between truth and philosophical action, metaphysics and freedom, and theology and philosophy.
[2] Dubarle later collaborated with Louis Leprince-Ringuet to solve problems in nuclear physics and in 1948 contributed an article to Le Monde which helped to make cybernetics better known in France.