Wilhelm Windelband
Wilhelm Windelband | |
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idiographic distinction |
Wilhelm Windelband (Baden School.
Biography
Windelband was born the son of a Prussian official in
Berlin, and Göttingen
.
Philosophical work
Windelband is now mainly remembered for the terms
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
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.
Further reading
- 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
- 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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