Benno Erdmann
Benno Erdmann (30 May 1851, Guhrau – 7 January 1921, Berlin) 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. Hermann von Helmholtz proposed Erdmann's publication Die Axiome der Geometrie (1877) as the basis for a habilitation. In 1878 he became an associate 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 Wroclaw, in 1890 to the University of Halle, in 1898 to the University of Bonn and in 1909 he returned to Berlin.
Works
- Martin Knutzen und seine Zeit. 1876
- Die Axiome der Geometrie, eine philosophische Untersuchung der Riemann-Helmholtz'schen Raumtheorie. Leipzig: Voss 1877
- Kant's Kriticismus in der ersten und in der zweiten Auflage der Kritik der reinen Vernunft. 1878
- Logik. Bd. 1. Logische Elementarlehre. Halle: Niemeyer 1892 (review by Bernard Bosanquet in Mind (1892), N.S. No. 2)
- Abhandlungen zur Philosophie und ihrer Geschichte. 1893
- Psychologische Untersuchungen über das Lesen auf experimenteller Grundlage. 1898
- Die Psychologie des Kindes, und die Schule 1901
- Historische Untersuchungen über Kants Prolegomena. 1904
- Über Inhalt und Geltung des Kausalgesetzes 1905
- Umrisse zur Psychologie des Denkens. 1908
- Über den modernen Monismus 1914
References
- Lüder Gäbe, "Erdmann, Benno." In: Neue Deutsche Biographie (NDB). Vol. 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0, p. 570ff.
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