Benno Erdmann (30 May 1851, Guhrau – 7 January 1921, Berlin) was a German neo-Kantian

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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

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. 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 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

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Works

* '' Martin Knutzen und seine Zeit''. 1876 * ''Die Axiome der Geometrie, eine philosophische Untersuchung der Riemann-Helmholtz'schen Raumtheorie''. 1877 *''Kant's Kriticismus in der ersten und in der zweiten Auflage der Kritik der reinen Vernunft''. 1878 * ''Logik. Bd. 1. Logische Elementarlehre''. 1892 (review by Bernard Bosanquet in ''

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'' (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: ''

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'' (NDB). Vol. 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, , p. 570ff.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Erdmann, Benno German logicians German psychologists 19th-century philosophers 20th-century German philosophers 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers University of Bonn faculty University of Kiel faculty University of Breslau faculty Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg faculty Humboldt University of Berlin faculty 1851 births 1921 deaths People from Góra People from the Province of Silesia