Wilhelm Windelband
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Wilhelm Windelband, prior to 1905
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| Born | 11 May 1848 Potsdam, Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Heidelberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Jena University of Berlin University of Göttingen (Dr. phil., 1870) |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Neo-Kantianism (Baden School) Foundationalism[1] |
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Main interests
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Metaphysics, philosophical logic |
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Notable ideas
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The nomothetic–idiographic distinction |
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Influenced
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Wilhelm Windelband (/ˈvɪndəlbænd/; German: [ˈvɪndl̩bant]; 11 May 1848 – 22 October 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden School.
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Biography
Windelband was born the son of a Prussian official in Potsdam. He studied at Jena, Berlin, and Göttingen.
Philosophical work
Windelband is now mainly remembered for the terms nomothetic and idiographic, which he introduced. These have currency in psychology and other areas, though not necessarily in line with his original meanings. Windelband was a neo-Kantian who argued against other contemporary neo-Kantians, maintaining that "to understand Kant rightly means to go beyond him". Against his positivist contemporaries, Windelband argued that philosophy should engage in humanistic dialogue with the natural sciences rather than uncritically appropriating its methodologies. His interests in psychology and cultural sciences represented an opposition to psychologism and historicism schools by a critical philosophic system.
Windelband relied in his effort to reach beyond Kant on such philosophers as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Friedrich Herbart and Hermann Lotze. Closely associated with Windelband was Heinrich Rickert. Windelband's disciples were not only noted philosophers, but sociologists like Max Weber and theologians like Ernst Troeltsch and Albert Schweitzer.
Bibliography
The following works by Windelband are available in English translations:
- Books
- History of Philosophy (1893) (two volumes) reprinted 1901, 1938 and 1979 by Macmillan
- History of Ancient Philosophy (1899)
- An Introduction to Philosophy (1895)
- Theories in Logic (1912)
- Articles
- "History and Natural Science" (J. T. Lamiell, transl.). Theory and Psychology 8, 1998, 6–22.
See also
References
- ↑ Windelband defended foundationalism in his book Über die Gewißheit der Erkenntniss. (1873)—see Frederick C. Beiser (2014), The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796–1880 (Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 517.
- ↑ Frederick C. Beiser, The German Historicist Tradition, Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 370.
- ↑ Sebastian Luft (ed.), The Neo-Kantian Reader, Routledge 2015, pp. 461–463.
Further reading
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External links
- A History of Philosophy—With especial reference to the formation and development of its problems and conceptions (1901) on archive.org
- An Introduction to Philosophy on archive.org
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