Wilhelm Windelband
Wilhelm Windelband | |
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 Wilhelm Windelband, prior to 1905 | |
| Born | 11 May 1848 |
| Died | 22 October 1915(aged 67) |
| 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] |
| Thesis | Die Lehren vom Zufall (The Theories of Chance)(1870) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hermann Lotze |
| Doctoral students | Heinrich Rickert |
Main interests | Metaphysics,philosophical logic |
Notable ideas | Thenomothetic–idiographicdistinction |
Wilhelm Windelband(/ˈvɪndəlbænd/;German:[ˈvɪndl̩bant];11 May 1848 – 22 October 1915) was a Germanphilosopherof theBaden School.
Biography[edit]
Windelband was born the son of a Prussian official inPotsdam.He studied atJena,Berlin,andGöttingen.
Philosophical work[edit]
Windelband is now mainly remembered for the termsnomotheticandidiographic,which he introduced. These have currency inpsychologyand other areas, though not necessarily in line with his original meanings. Windelband was aneo-Kantianwho argued against other contemporary neo-Kantians, maintaining that "to understandKantrightly means to go beyond him ". Against hispositivistcontemporaries, Windelband argued that philosophy should engage in humanistic dialogue with the natural sciences rather than uncritically appropriating its methodologies. His interests inpsychologyand cultural sciences represented an opposition topsychologismandhistoricismschools by a critical philosophic system.
Windelband relied in his effort to reach beyond Kant on such philosophers asGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,Johann Friedrich HerbartandHermann Lotze.Closely associated with Windelband wasHeinrich Rickert.Windelband's disciples were not only noted philosophers, butsociologistslikeMax WeberandtheologianslikeErnst TroeltschandAlbert Schweitzer.
Bibliography[edit]
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 Psychology8,1998, 6–22.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Windelband defended foundationalism in his bookÜber die Gewißheit der Erkenntniss.(1873)—seeFrederick C. Beiser(2014),The Genesis of Neo-Kantianism, 1796–1880(Oxford: Oxford University Press), p. 517.
Further reading[edit]
- Rickert, Heinrich (1929) [1915].Wilhelm Windelband(2nd ed.). Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr.
- Mayeda, Graham (2008). "Is there a Method to Chance? Contrasting Kuki Shūzō's Phenomenological Methodology in The Problem of Contingency with that of his Contemporaries Wilhelm Windelband and Heinrich Rickert". In Hori, Victor S; Curley, Melissa Anne-Marie (eds.).Frontiers of Japanese Philosophy II: Neglected Themes and Hidden Variations.Nagoya, Japan: Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture.
External links[edit]
- A History of Philosophy—With especial reference to the formation and development of its problems and conceptions (1901)onarchive.org
- An Introduction to Philosophyonarchive.org
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