Benno Erdmann (30 May 1851, Guhrau – 7 January 1921,

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) was a German

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philosopher,

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, psychologist and scholar of

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Biography

Erdmann received his Ph.D. in 1873 from the

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with a dissertation on Kant. The title of his thesis was ''Die Stellung des Dinges an sich in Kants Aesthetik und Analytik''.

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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

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, and in 1884 he went to the

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, in 1890 to the

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, in 1898 to the

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and in 1909 he returned to Berlin. He was the father of journalist Lothar Erdmann.

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 '' 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, , p. 570ff.

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