Benno Erdmann

Benno Erdmann
Born(1851-05-30)May 30, 1851
Guhren near Glogau, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia
DiedJanuary 7, 1921(1921-01-07) (aged 69)
Berlin, Germany
ChildrenLothar Erdmann
Education
EducationUniversity of Berlin
ThesisDie Stellung des Dinges an sich in Kants Aesthetik und Analytik (1873)
Eduard Zeller
Hermann Bonitz
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
Neo-Kantianism
InstitutionsUniversity of Kiel
University of Breslau
University of Bonn
Doctoral students
Wolfgang Köhler
James Rowland Angell
Raymond Dodge
Main interests
Logic, psychology
Notable ideas
Logical laws as having mere hypothetical necessity

Benno Erdmann (German: [ˈeːɐ̯tman]; 30 May 1851 – 7 January 1921) was a German neo-Kantian philosopher, logician, psychologist and scholar of Immanuel Kant.

Biography

Erdmann received his Ph.D. in 1873 from the University of Berlin with a dissertation on Kant. The title of his thesis was Die Stellung des Dinges an sich in Kants Aesthetik und Analytik (The Position of the Thing in Itself in Kant's Aesthetic and Analytic). Hermann von Helmholtz proposed Erdmann's publication Die Axiome der Geometrie (The Axioms of Geometry, 1877) as the basis for a habilitation.

In 1878 he became an extraordinary professor at the University of Berlin, in 1879 a full professor at the University of Kiel, and in 1884 he went to the University of Breslau, in 1890 to the University of Halle, in 1898 to the University of Bonn and in 1909 he returned to Berlin.

He was the father of journalist Lothar Erdmann.

Works

References

  1. ↑ Psychologism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy): "Examples of Psychologistic Reasoning"
  2. ↑ Gäbe, Lüder (1959). Neue Deutsche Biographie (Vol. 4 ed.). Duncker & Humblot. p. 570ff. ISBN 3-428-00185-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)