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Benno Erdmann (30 May 1851,
Guhrau – 7 January 1921,
Berlin
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) was a German
neo-Kantian
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philosopher,
logician
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,
psychologist and scholar of
Immanuel Kant
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.
Biography
Erdmann received his Ph.D. in 1873 from the
University of Berlin
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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''.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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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
University of Kiel
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, and in 1884 he went to the
University of Breslau
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, in 1890 to the
University of Halle
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, in 1898 to the
University of Bonn
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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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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
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People from the Province of Silesia